Re: Stopping a melismata extender

[Johan Vromans]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

> > I found one hack to accomplish this: give the third note a 'lyric'
> > syllable consisting of a single hard space. But I'm sure there are
> > better ways.
> 
> I don't know if it's "better", but I've defined
> 
>     nullLyric = \markup \null

Yes this is better. It does not occupy (vertical) space so the staves
can be put closer together. See the attached images. The first image
uses a hard space in the first syllable of the voice 2, the second
image uses the nullLyric.

Thanks!

-- Johan

p1.jpg
Description: Using a hard space

p2.jpg
Description: Using a nullLyric