Re: How to make multi-measure rest physically longer?

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 26 January 2011 20:27, Seth Williamson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> In order to get enough room to get the language printed without cramping
> (some tempo stuff, quarter note equals metronome marking, etc.), he had to
> break up the first six bars of rest into three units of two each, and break
> up the ten bars of rest into two groups of two and eight, and the five bars
> into one and four. This gave him the space he needed for the markup
> language.
> My question is this: is it possible to print the multi-measure rest sections
> with the values they have in the original copy (much easier to read and
> count that way), except physically lengthened so there's room before and
> after the rests to get in the tempo language?
> I have looked around but don't see a solution.  I'm figuring, though, that
> there must be a way to do this.  Can somebody tell me how to handle this
> situation?

If it is simple markups use  \textLengthOn .
If you want to  Force measure width to adapt to MetronomeMark's width,
have a look a LSR #659
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=659

But please provide some example of the code...

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>