lilypond-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: add articulation support to multi measure rests (issue 562710043 by


From: Dan Eble
Subject: Re: add articulation support to multi measure rests (issue 562710043 by address@hidden)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:27:38 -0400

On Apr 27, 2019, at 04:54, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Multimeasure rests can be split into multiple rests and across lines.
> That's what makes then a Spanner rather than an Item and is the main
> cause of this complication.  How are you dealing with such a split?  A
> fermata only makes sense on the last such rest, most text markups make
> sense only on the first such rest.

See Malte’s answer when I raised the same concern:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2019-04/msg00087.html 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2019-04/msg00087.html>

It’s a bit long to quote, but his major premise is that \fermata on a 
compressed multimeasure rest is ambiguous to the point of being useless.
— 
Dan



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]