Re: [Denemo-devel] Melisma Start / End directives

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 19:10 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Am 18.01.2017 um 11:09 schrieb Richard Shann:
> > On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 21:57 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> >> Am 17.01.2017 um 14:59 schrieb Richard Shann:
> >>> On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 13:52 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> >>>>>>> Something else: Begin Melisma and End Melisma could be added to
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>> Notes/Rests menu,
> >>>
> >>> Well, perhaps in the Lyrics menu?
> >>
> >> Hmm, intuitively I would expect a command under Lyrics to affect the
> >> text in the lyrics pane, while placing it under Notes/Rests suggests to
[...]
> > where it is essential to use that syntax?). We could always add it with
> > a health warning, of course...
> 
> Well, I think you *can* do everything by using underscores in the
> lyrics, but it is not quick to look over a whole bunch of underscores
> (say, 20).

IIRC that is what the "Skip syllables in selection" is for - you can
just type the number of underscore you need, essentially.


>  Thus, it may be much more convenient to use the \melisma and
> \melismaEnd directives, especially for ancient music.
> 
> How do you adapt the Denemo display for slurs? Can you use the same
> mechanism for the melisma directives?

Not without introducing flakiness - slurs, ties and grace notes are all
understood by Denemo - they are hard wired into the C code. Manual
beaming etc are just bits of LilyPond syntax Denemo is instructed to
output.

Richard