Re: Feature Request: \addlyrics issues

[Erik Sandberg]

On Saturday 10 January 2004 02.31, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > {one4 \addlyricsOff two2 \addlyricsOn four4}
> > (where two2 means that "two" explicitely has the duration 1/2)
> > This notation would be easy to write and read. It also feels like a hack,
> > but it does reflect something like a hack in the notation. And problems
> > will arise if \addlyricsOn isn't aligned to a note in the melody, so this
> > could result in a warning and give undefined output.
>
> How about a switch that will turn of melisma following, eg.
>
>
>      \lyrics { bla bla \autoMelismaOff bla bla \autoMelismaOn bla bla }
>      \lyrics { bla bla ____                                   bla bla }

Yes, this notation is definitely a lot nicer than my suggestion. And it is 
also sufficient for all reasonable usages.

And if someone for some perverse reason would like to print a single stanza 
unaligned to a note, then this is still possible but a bit painful (put the 
unaligned stanza between two sequencial \addlyrics).

Erik