Re: Dashed slurs indicating optional slurs between lyric lines

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2007 schrieb Romel Anthony S. Bismonte:
> In the songbook we use at church, the verses to the song are stacked on top
> of each other if the melody lines are similar enough. But if two notes are
> slurred in one verse and sung separately in another, they are connected
> with a dashed slur, and the lyrics align under the notes respectively. [...]
> Essentially, it creates polyphony (as described in the Manual) where the
> dashed slur is needed, places invisible notes there, and connects those
> with a dashed slur. That way, back in the main voice, lyrics can still
> align beneath either note. I found that thickening the slur with an
> \override command worked best because an ordinary dashed slur was almost
> invisible on my screen.
>
> Then, to align the lyrics underneath the right notes, place \skip
> instructions where you don't want words. 

In the documentation, the "official" way to do it without introducing 
polyphony is to set ignoreMelismata in the lyrics:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Lyrics-to-multiple-notes-of-a-melisma

Cheers,
Reinhold

PS: Your example creates problems here, because the slur's position is 
calculated including the (invisible) stems of the hidden notes. Thus the slur 
even overlaps with the lyrics...

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