On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> My 2¢:
>
>>> I'd like to easily make choral scores with automatic beaming
>>> inside melismas and none outside.
>
>> I 100% support your wish.
>
> While I 100% the idea that Lilypond should do everything for everybody
> (within reason), I ***100% oppose*** this "feature" as default: There is
> a very good reason that choral scores have evolved beyond that confusing
> and amusical tradition/convention which dominated engraving before the 20th
> Century.
I'm not sure if i made myself clear. Here's how i think it should work:
\relative c'' {
r2 d4 g,8 g
c8 c c c b16 \melisma a b c b c a b
g16 fis g a g b a b c b c d c d b c
a4 \melismaEnd r r2
}
\addlyrics { For un -- to us a child is born, __ }
should produce the same output as now. The cool thing would be that this:
\relative c'' {
\autoBeamOff
r2 d4 g,8 g
c8 c c c b16 \melisma a b c b c a b
g16 fis g a g b a b c b c d c d b c
a4 \melismaEnd r r2
}
\addlyrics { For un -- to us a child is born, __ }
would produce automatic beaming inside the melisma. Of course, it
should be possible to turn this off.
Is this acceptable to you?
cheers,
Janek
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