Re: Markup for cadenza rest

[Benjamin Esham]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> > I am typesetting a horn part from a piano concerto, and I'm  
> > having  difficulty with the "Cadenza" rests in the piece.  What I  
> > would like  is a rest in the staff—it can be a 4-beat rest, like  
> > r1, a full- measure rest, like R1, or a long multi-measure rest,  
> > with the  horizontal bar; I don't really care which kind.  Above  
> > that, center- aligned, should be a fermata, and aligned above  
> > that, the word  "Cadenza".
>
> You should definitely use R1^\markup{...}
> One method to get the horizontal size the way you want it
> is to manually specify the width, such as
> \override MultiMeasureRest  #'minimum-length = #10
>
> I couldn't find any method to let LilyPond figure out the width
> automatically.

Thanks a lot, Mats!  This worked great for me:

cadenzaTwoBeats = {
    \once \override MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #9
    R2^\markup{ \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \center-align 
{ \italic Cadenza \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } }
}
cadenzaFourBeats = {
    \once \override MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #9
    R1^\markup{ \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \center-align 
{ \italic Cadenza \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } }
}

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