RE: Elision in lyrics

[Georg Dummer]

Hi,

A friend of mine wrote this script for me and I successfully use it in
MusixTEX:
http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/taupin/add-ons/underbracket/

Sadly I do not know how to use it in Lilypond.
If you find this out I'm really interested in your solution.

Georg

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Mats Bengtsson
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 4:40 PM
To: Laura Conrad
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Subject: Re: Elision in lyrics

This request keeps poping up about once a year or so. If I recall correctly,
the earlier requests were for a curved symbol, something like a tie pointing
downwards, whereas your example shows a straight line. I think you can find
some workarounds in the mailing list archives using inline LaTeX code. For
an ordinary underscore as in the example you show, you could simply use
"tre\\_es".
If there happens to be any symbol in the LilyPond Feta font that could be
useful (see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/The-Feta-fo
nt.html#The-Feta-font)
then it's easy to access in the lyrics by just inserting a \markup{...}
command.

    /Mats

Laura Conrad wrote:
> There's a typesetting convention for lyrics that when there are what 
> look like two syllables on a note but it's really only one because one 
> is elided, you join the syllables with a sort of a tie underneath 
> them.  You can see how Encore does this on the bottom score of the 
> first page of this file.
> 
> <http://www.cpdl.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&;
> req=getit&lid=2595>
> 
> Is there a way to make Lilypond do this?  
> 
> If so, can it be documented and indexed under "elision", or "Lyrics,
elision"?
> 
> One of my group members believes strongly that this is the *right 
> thing to do*, so I might do it if it were easy, but they never did 
> stuff like that in the 16th century, so I might just not bother 
> anyway.
>        

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