RE: markup at the left of multimeasure rests

[Trevor Daniels]

Paul

You're right, R11 is different in this respect.  Bars no
longer expand by default to accommodate markup text attached
to skip notes.  Such text is still left-aligned to the skip
note, but it is now positioned above the bar count
numeral.

Prepending \fatText will cause the bar to expand, but as
the text itself now determines the bar length it appears
to be centered even though it is actually left-aligned on
the skip note.  If you make two markups in the same bar,
one short and one long, you will see the shorter markup
is left-aligned.

IIRC the text appeared alongside the bar count numeral
pre-R11; in R11 it will normally appear above it, although
when there are two markups the shorter one may drop down
if there is room for it.

I've sent a patch for the NR to clarify this.

Trevor D

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> Paul Scott
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> Subject: markup at the left of multimeasure rests
>
>
> This subject used to be documented but doesn't
> seem to be in the 2.11.37
> doc's.  It also doesn't seem to work as it did at one time
>
> This is from the 2.4 manual which resulted from
> my Googling:
>
> 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.
>
> s1*0^"Allegro"
> R1*4
>
> Attached is an example which doesn't work that
> way.  It centers the test as MultiMeasureRestText
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/
> lilypond-internals-big-page#MultiMeasureRestText>
>
> would be expected to do.
>
> Paul Scott
>
>