Re: spacers and multimeasure rests

[Mats Bengtsson]

What LilyPond version do you use? Some aspects of this problem have
been fixed fairly recently and perhaps only in the development versions 
2.11.x.

   /Mats

Quoting Neil Thornock <address@hidden>:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to add some carefully-positioned markup above a multimeasure rest
> by attaching it to a spacer within the rest (s8^\markup {} R1*15/16*2).  But
> the presence of the spacer alters the horizontal spacing routine of the
> multimeasure rest.
>
> Is there a way to convince the multimeasure rest that the spacer does not
> exist?
>
> Or to somehow force it to space the same as a "pure" multimeasure rest?
>
> --
> Neil Thornock, D.M.
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
> Theory/Composition
> Brigham Young University