Daniel you wrote Saturday, March 14, 2015 12:17 AM
> I’m typesetting an aria that has several melismatic > passages with smaller, individually slurred phrases > over single syllables. Using automatic text setting > obviously won’t work here. I’d rather not set the > lyrics with manual durations because the majority > of the score doesn’t require it. The only other > solution I can think of is to hide the slurs in > these passages and simultaneously use phrasing > slurs, but this also would be rather cumbersome. > Any suggestions for an easier, more elegant solution? I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want here (a small example showing the problem will always result in a greater number of more helpful responses) but there are other ways of indicating a melisma. Perhaps the one you want is the single underscore in the lyrics. See the last one in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#multiple-notes-to-one-syllable Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
