Re: Automatic beaming in melismas

[Francisco Vila]

2012/3/21 Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:
> 1. The default auto-beaming should produce scores which represent the current 
> best practice in the engraving industry, which is to ignore lyrics (inside 
> and outside melismas) and beam as if it were instrumental music.

And using slurs for melismas (which are interpreted as melismas by
lilypond) as in

\relative c'' {
 r2 d4 g,8 g
 c8 c c c b16(
 a b c b c a b
 g16 fis g a g b a b c b c d c d b c
 a4)
 r r2
}
\addlyrics { For un -- to us a child is born, __ }

This way there is no need of the \melisma command in common modern practice.

Also, manual beams do melismas automatically (it is not a solution for
long melismas)

\relative c'{
  \autoBeamOff
  e8 e f16[ g f e] f4 r
}
\addlyrics
{ A me -- lis -- ma. }

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