Re: help with melisma and autobeaming

[Russ Ross]

Thanks for the tip.  What I ended up doing was writing a script to
introduce a new syntax.  I find \melisma ... \melismaEnd quite
cumbersome so I now use [[ to start a melisma and ]] to end it.  The
Makefile runs it through a simple perl script to convert foo[[ into
\autoBeamOn foo\melisma and ]] into \melismaEnd \autoBeamOff before
feeding it to LilyPond.

I wish I'd done that a long time ago.

- Russ


On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:02:52 +0200, Erik Sandberg
<address@hidden> wrote:
> \melisma and \autoBeamOn are different kinds of events; \melisma is attached
> to the preceding note (similarly to things like staccato dots, -. ) so it
> cannot be placed in a { } block the way you did. You can probably do
> something like
> 
> m = \notes {s8\melisma \autoBeamOn}
> 
> and then use it like
> << g8[ \m >>
> 
> but I haven't tested it.
> 
> Erik
>