Re: Lyrics ignore ties and slurs when applied to a Devnull context.

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/11/5 Reino Ruusu <address@hidden>:

> Yes, you definitely need to change the documentation. Is there some simple 
> alternative way to achieve this?

To achieve what? Typesetting lyrics or rewriting the docs? :-)

> I happened to hit this issue while typesetting lyrics to a song, in which 
> there are slight rhythmic variations between stanzas. The actual melody is 
> written using dashed ties to indicate variations in the rhythms. The 
> individual stanzas are then entered with their own moments.
> I can do what I want by entering the moments for lyrics directly in 
> \lyricsmode, so this is not a big issue for me. The hidden rhythm that goes 
> to Devnull can also be written without ties, but that prevents the printing 
> of lyric extenders.

Indeed. Well, as you can see, you're not the only one facing this
problem so i guess sooner or later someone will implement a better
feature.

Cheers,
Valentin