Re: How to end a melisma

[Malte Meyn]

Am 31.10.2017 um 18:09 schrieb pkarl:
> My next naive attempt was to try to positively indicate where the 
> melisma should end:
>
> Music = \relative c'' { c4 d e f    c d e f    r d e f    c d e f }
> Lyrics = \lyricmode { do re mi fa __ _ _ _ _  " "
>                \repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 } sol la ti do }
>
> But that didn't work either.
>
> What did work was to change the single blank to two blanks:
>
> Lyrics = \lyricmode { do re mi fa __ _ _ _ _  "  "
>                \repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 } sol la ti do }
No blanks ("") work also; I’d recommend that. Another hint: You don’t need

        \repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 }

if you just can write

        _ _

;) So here’s what I would do:

        Lyrics = \lyricmode {
          do re mi fa __ _ _ _ _ "" _ _ sol la ti do
        }

I think that there’s no more “correct” way because it seems like 
addlyrics is made for “every note is sung”.