Re: Understanding spacers err.. spacing

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:10:11PM -0500, James Lowe wrote:
> I guess I was trying to illustrate what I thought was an
> inconsistency or unexpected behaviour for the spacer as I often
> use this method to manually align things like hairpins for
> instance, or the odd dotted line  text spanner when I want it
> 'just so'.

There's some technical reason why we added \fermataMarkup instead
of making \fermata act in the same way, but I don't know what it
was.  If you search the archives for -devel you should be able to
find the discussion, but unless you know a lot more about the
lilypond internals than I do, reading the discussion probably
won't help much.

Cheers,
- Graham