Re: Issue 1833 in lilypond: Deprecate \fermataMarkup for full-bar rests.

[lilypond]

Comment #11 on issue 1833 by address@hidden: Deprecate \fermataMarkup for  
full-bar rests.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1833

The work that is done here is quite awkward: some music is deconstructed  
and something quite different but exposing a similar effect is  
synthesized.  There should be a way (TM) in the bowels of LilyPond to hand  
this "bundle" on without a manual conversion.

The key point, however, is that it is bowel works.  The music function  
changes don't even touch that area.  I have a some nice helpers for  
recursing into music and doing selected changes (cf map-some-music) but it  
does not even look like Neil is recursing here.

I would certainly prefer if this kind of functionality could be written  
trivially here, but that will mean that (more generally useful but probably  
harder) complexity has to go elsewhere.