Re: fermata not shown at playing parts

[Neil Puttock]

On 17 July 2010 09:13, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Wouldn't it make more sense if articulations were siphoned off a
> multimeasure and tacked back on by the multimeasure engraver?

They already are.  The syntax constructor for full-bar rests converts
markup text and articulations into MultiMeasureTextEvents, copying the
'text property from the original event.  Since articulations don't
have a setting for 'text, they just generate an empty markup.

All the information necessary for generating the correct markup for a
script is present in all-script-definitions, so it would be easy to
extract the relevant information for a musicglyph markup setting for
'text.  The only problem is scripts whose appearance changes with
direction: unless there's an explicit setting (via _ and ^), there's
no way of knowing what the correct direction should be at the
interpretation stage; this would result in the wrong script in
polyphonic rests (particularly important for a fermata).

Cheers,
Neil