| Thank you for the replies. The lyric tie doesn’t need to extend to the next syllable, but it looks odd when appended to the left syllable at the same time as displacing it; it looks like an error, especially if the left syllable were to stretch across more than one note as in the revised example below.
The purpose of a dotted slur between the notes is ambiguous, so I’d rather not take that route.
My preference is to have a lyric tie equally spaced between the two syllables: it looks elegant and its purpose is clear.
\version "2.20.0" \language "english"
global = { \key d \major }
soprano=\relative c'{ r4 cs cs a d e cs fs ~ fs %\breathe b, fs' fs8 fs a4. a8 g4 fs }
sopranotext=\lyricmode{ O sa -- crum con -- ví -- vi -- um,~ __ O sa -- crum con -- ví -- vi -- um, con }
\score { { \new Staff << \global \new Voice="v1" { \clef "treble" \soprano } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "v1" {\sopranotext} >> } }
Le 22/07/2022 à 10:27, Simon Albrecht a écrit : Hi mancunius,
On 20/07/2022 12:34, mancunius wrote:
Hello. In the following example I want the undertie to be placed between the 2 “O sacrum convivium” lines of lyrics, to indicate that no breath should be taken by the singers - as per the normal choral convention. (cf. the commented-out \breathe command in the music itself.) As it currently compiles, the undertie is placed beneath the word “O” of the second phrase.
This is because the markup command \undertie requires an argument and so it is applied to the following syllable.
What I would suggest is a dotted or dashed slur between the notes like this:
{ \once\dashedSlur cs( d) }
Unfortunately there is no mechanism for creating a tie between different lyric syllables _yet_. However, LilyPond is very open to customisation and maybe some of the wizards on this list could help. This is the method I hoped might work:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.20.0"
\layout {
\context {
\Lyrics
\consists "Slur_engraver"
}
}
startLyricSlur = (
stopLyricSlur = )
\score {
<<
{ 2 4( 4) }
\addlyrics {
um, \startLyricSlur
O __ \stopLyricSlur
}
>>
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
and I don’t know whether it’s a short or a long way from working…
Well, as David W. mentioned, there is predefined syntax with "~" to create a tie. Its length is fixed, however. { c'1 1 } \addlyrics { aah~ aah } Do you think it's conventional to make the tie extend to the next syllable? Best, Jean
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