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Re: quoteDuring with lyrics
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: quoteDuring with lyrics |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 08:43:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi David,
>
>>> [David K:]
>>>> Entering lyrics with durations actually saves a lot of headaches
>>> Beyond this issue, what other headache-savings can you point to?
>>
>> Not having to bother with melismata and slurs and autobeaming and whatnot.
>
> Not sure what you mean by "not having to bother with"…? (e.g. It
> certainly seems I still have to add extenders manually in order to
> show melismata.)
>
>> I think it is a bit similar to using \relative versus \fixed et al: you
>> don't have to coax something to work in a purportedly simpler way
>> depending more on local details.
>
> As you may recall, I'm a die-hard anti-\relative-ite. =)
>
>> It's not really a good sell unless you have been bitten often enough.
>
> Hmmm… So far, I'm not loving explicit lyric durations.
> I'll play with it a bit more, but my first impression is that it will
> ultimately be superior to use \addlyrics and abandon the dream of
> quotable lyrics.
Maybe. You can of course just put lyrics in a variable, but then the
lyrics distribution to notes will of course be done fresh when you use
that variable.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: quoteDuring with lyrics, (continued)
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