Re: Which engraver creates \fermataMarkup

[Mats Bengtsson]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Montag, 14. Januar 2008 schrieben Sie:
>   
> > See section "Multi measure rests" in the manual.
> >     
>
> Thanks, but that's the first place that I looked. It only says that the 
> fermata markup is a MultiMeasureRestText. The internal reference then says 
> that these objects are created by Multi_measure_rest_engraver, which I 
> couldn't really believe, since from my experience, lilypond uses all 
> different kinds of engravers for each small detail. So I found it very odd 
> that one and the same engraver would create the MultiMeasureRest, the 
> MultiMeasureRestNumber and the MultiMeasureRestText (which as a consequence 
> makes it impossible to remove the fermata markup from a multi-measure rest 
> without resorting to a music-filter as suggested by Gilles). 
>   
An alternative to the music-filter approach is to just remove the object 
by making
it transparent: \override MultiMeasureRestText #'transparent = ##t
or by removing the function that prints it: \override 
MultiMeasureRestText #'stencil = ##f
see 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Visibility-and-color-of-objects#Visibility-and-color-of-objects
for more information.

  /Mats