Issue 1969 in lilypond: Placement attribute in MusicXML has no effect

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New issue 1969 by address@hidden: Placement attribute in MusicXML  
has no effect
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1969

Reported by Patrick Schmidt:

the values "above" and "below" of the 'placement'-attribute don't seem to  
show any effect in the <direction>-element, e.g. when you  
substitute "below" for "above" in the following code the result of the  
conversion is the same. (See: 33a-Spanners.xml in  
http://www.kainhofer.net/musicxml/MusicXML-TestSuite-0.1.zip)

<!-- snip -->

    <!--=======================================================-->
    <measure number="15">
      <direction placement="above">
        <direction-type>
          <dashes number="1" type="start"/>
        </direction-type>
      </direction>

<!-- snip -->

BTW: Is the wavy line of the trill mark supposed to extend to the end of  
the example in 33a-Spanners.xml? Shouldn't it rather be:

    <!--=======================================================-->
    <measure number="7">
      <note>
        <pitch>
          <step>B</step>
          <octave>4</octave>
        </pitch>
        <duration>3</duration>
        <voice>1</voice>
        <type>quarter</type>
        <notations>
          <ornaments>
            <wavy-line number="1" type="start"/>
          </ornaments>
        </notations>
      </note>
      <note>
        <rest/>
        <duration>6</duration>
        <voice>1</voice>
        <type>half</type>
        <notations>
          <ornaments>
            <wavy-line number="1" type="stop"/>
          </ornaments>
        </notations>
      </note>
    </measure>