Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Further to this, I now have a perfect score.  The double underscore is not necessary.  If it is there, it prints.  If it is not there, it doesn't print, but the melisma is still honored.  To my mind, that looks better, but I have seen plenty of scores with the underscores printed.  I no longer n

Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know what is going on.  To get Mats' sample working, I had to observe a couple of extra rules: This error occurs at the end of a line of the lyrics.  The next syllable must be typed on the same line.  A new line is enough to cause the problem.  Where there are no further lyrics (at the

Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have noticed that the example you give below contains a syntax error so that LilyPond will not produce any output. The error message printed out by LilyPond should be fairly clear about the problem. Maybe the PDF file you looked at was left over from some earlier version of your inp

Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, the line worked perfectly until I put Line 2 in.  Now I am back where I was.  There were a couple of instances of two spaces where there should have been 1, but I corrected those. I installed the latest version of Lilypond, but it made no difference. I can't create a self-contained extrac

Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.  That worked perfectly. I thought that I had the spacing right, but must not have. Using version 2.6.3 here as provided by Mandriva. Doug. On Monday 02 April 2007 23:16, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > What is the problem? It's much easier if you send a complete (but small) > example > that can

Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What is the problem? It's much easier if you send a complete (but small) example that can be ran directly through LilyPond. Also, please always tell what LilyPond version you are using. Based on your example, i made the following complete example which seems to work well: \version "2.10.0" \rela

Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is a typical example.  This pattern occurs repeatedly throughout this song: a   d, b' | a2   d,4 | e2. ~ | e | Let it be-  gin with   me__ Doug. On Monday 02 April 2007 02:56, Dominic Neumann wrote: > Please provide us an example code to play with it. > > Dominic > > 2007/4/1, [EMAIL P

Re: Melisma error.

2007-04-01 Thread Dominic Neumann
Please provide us an example code to play with it. Dominic 2007/4/1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am trying to add lyrics to a tune which has a note tied across two measures. The usual method of adding a double underscore after the word doesn't work. Since all the examples given h