Re: Old LilyPond versions

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Han-Wen" == Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

    Han-Wen> It's probably not in the manual, but if you want to be double-plus
    Han-Wen> sure that you don't get hit by this again, I recommend to use 
explicit
    Han-Wen> durations for lyrics, like

    Han-Wen>   \lyricmode { to4 re8. a16 dor4 ... }

Unfortunately, this would make it impossible to use the same lyrics for
different polyphonic voices, or to google for the lyrics and just
snarf them into your .ly file.  Both of which are practices that make
it a lot faster to transcribe vocal music (for the current version of
lilypond).

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