Re: Rehearsal Marks & Bar Lengthening

[Will Oram]

Really? I find it to be one of my more nagging problems, actually -- in 
past works I've had to replace \mark with \markup in order to 
circumvent this weirdness.

This is a picture of the phenomenon: 
http://www.foxchange.com/~spamguy/misc/images/longbar.jpg . Since I've 
never used fatText, this wouldn't be the culprit unless lily were using 
it without my knowledge.

Best,
Will

On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:24 PM, Graham Percival wrote:

> On 17-Aug-05, at 8:39 PM, Will Oram wrote:
>
> > Under most circumstances \mark can lengthen the measure on which it 
> > occurs to incredible lengths. However long the \mark \markup string 
> > is, that much empty staff space sits underneath it down the system. 
> > Once \mark ends, *then* the content of the measure is printed.
> >
> > How to tweak it so \mark \markup and the music underneath get along?
>
> Uhh... don't use the \fatText command?  I've never seen the behavior
> you describe by default; it only happens if you use \fatText.  See
> 8.1.1 Text scripts.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
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