Colin Campbell <c...@shaw.ca> writes: > After wrestling with a transcription of an unmetered piece by Mark > Sirett (Thou Shalt Know Him), my wife and I were going bonkers trying > to get lyrics aligned to the notes. The piece has no time signature > and bars of uneven length. We tried using \cadenzaOn to get the > unmetered aspect, but the fundamental problem is that \cadenzaOn turns > off autoBeam, which in turn means that manual beaming in a cadenza > creates unwanted melismata. We worked out that taking out the > \cadenzaOn(Off) would help, and getting rid of a default time > signature is easy enough, by removing the engraver in the Staff > context and entering explicit bars ( \bl = \bar "|" ), but we had to > beam by hand and we still got barlines in unexpected (i.e. we didn't > enter them!) places. The last pieces of the puzzle were to go to the > Layout block and a Score context, to set automaticBars = ##f , then > back to our \global for a time signature of 1/4 so that autoBeam would > group eighths in twos, Bob's your uncle, and so to bed!
Can you check out issue 3633? The principal problem I see is that auto beaming will likely not occur at all, and I don't really see how this can be avoided in unmetered music. But unless you switch autoBeam off explicitly, manual beams should not create melismata. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
