Re: Automatic beaming in melismas

[Janek Warchoł]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2012/3/21 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
>>
>> The cool thing would be that this:
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>> would produce automatic beaming inside the melisma.  Of course, it
>> should be possible to turn this off.
>>
>> Is this acceptable to you?
>
> Maybe I'm missing an important point but AFAIK you can get automatic
> beaming inside the melisma and for instance a shorter melisma command
> with something like this:
>
> %%%% Snippet
>
> \version "2.15.34"
>
> mel = {
>  \melisma
>  \autoBeamOn
> }
>
> melEnd = {
>  \melismaEnd
>  \autoBeamOff
> }
>
> \relative c'' {
>  \autoBeamOff
>  r2 d4 g,8 g
>  c8 c c c b16 \mel a b c b c a b
>  g16 fis g a g b a b c b c d c d b c
>  a4 \melEnd r r2
> }
> \addlyrics { For un -- to us a child is born, __ }

Xavier, your solution doesn't work.  Check first note in the melisma.
And there are also other problems, some of them mentioned by Ben.
There's also a syntactic problem with slurs.

cheers,
Janek