RE: Multi-measure rests again again

[Ralph Little]

That's funky!
Thanks, I'll give it a try!

Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 23 September 2003 10:28
To: address@hidden
Cc: Ralph Little; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Multi-measure rests again again


address@hidden writes:
> Ralph Little wrote:
> 
> >Hi 
> >Looking through the archives, there seems to be a lot of issues relating
to
> >attaching text markup to MultiMeasure rests.
> >One general solutions seems to be along the lines of
> >
> >     <R1*10 s1^"Hello there">
> >
> >...or somesuch.
> >
> >I'm running 1.8.2 now. 
> >What's the recommended way of attaching text to multi-measure rests now?
> >Is there a better way?
> >
> The answer should be R1*2^\markup{ Allegro } but the markup hides the 
> measure count.  I am waiting for a comment on that problem.

Added this to the doco:


If you want to have a text on the left end of a multi-measure rest,
attach the text to a zero-length skip note, i.e.

@example
  s1*0^"Allegro"
  R1*4 
@end example


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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen 

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