Re: Hiding slurs but retaining melismata

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Brent,

Am 03.07.21 um 09:40 schrieb Brent Annable:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm preparing some choral motets, and so far I have used slurs to tell 
> the lyric engine where to put the melismata. I am finding the page a 
> little too cluttered, so bow I want to see what the score would look 
> like without the slurs in it.
>
> When I use \hide Slur, they disappear but the layout and spacing is 
> the same; obviously the engraver still creates them, they just aren't 
> shown. When I remove the engraver, the lyric engine no longer 
> recognises them so the syllables all end up in the wrong place.
>
> Is there a way to tell Lilypond to use the slur indications to 
> position the lyrics, but to tell the slur engraver not to generate them?

\hide'ing is too weak (it just makes the slurs transparent), \remove'ing 
the Slur_engraver is too much (the slurs cease to exist). \omit'ting is 
the right thing in between: The stencil is removed, so the slur won't be 
printed and won't take up space, but the lyrics engine still "sees" the 
slur.

So:

\version "2.22.1"

\layout {
  \omit Slur
}

\relative {
  g'4.( f8 e d c d)
  e4 c
}
\addlyrics {
  Me -- lis -- ma
}

Another, somewhat brutal alternative would be to re-define the meaning 
of ( and ):

\version "2.22.1"

"(" = \melisma
")" = \melismaEnd

\relative {
  g'4.( f8 e d c d)
  e4 c
}
\addlyrics {
  Me -- lis -- ma
}

Lukas