Re: 3 problems with LilyPond 2.12.3.1

[Phil Holmes]

2010/2/16 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> > accommodate one lyric syllable, rather than the 2 or 4 in the original. 
> > Is
> > there a way of changing this behaviour so that each beamed quaver
> > accommodates a syllable, and it's only slurs that make more than one note
> > per syllable?

> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Aligning-lyrics-to-a-melody#Multiple-notes-to-one-syllable>:
> "In addition, notes are considered a melisma if they are manually
> beamed, and automatic beaming (see Setting automatic beam behavior) is
> switched off."

Thanks.  Looks like the only way of avoiding this, then, is to set the stave 
to auto beaming, even though the stave is manually beamed.  Not sure I like 
this as a behaviour - I would expect slurs to default to causing syllables 
to extend over notes, but not beams.