Hi David, > It strikes me as conceptually problematic to try to put a fermata on a > multi-measure rest. > Who does this, and what does it mean, musically? > In this example, you are actually placing a fermata on a single bar of rest. > In which case, this works fine: > { \compressFullBarRests f1->\fermata R1*3 r1\fermata }
Except r1\fermata and R1\fermataMarkup look and behave differently. And the difference gets even more obvious when you have a measure not in 4/4. =) Hope that helps! Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user