Understanding spacers err.. spacing

2010-01-22 Thread James Lowe
Hello, I had been trying to get a fermata to align centrally over the last bar which is just a full rest (yes I know it makes no sense musically but anyway..) I had been struggling. So I came up with the idea of using spacer rests and you cannot do R1^\fermata But even with spacer rests I

Re: Understanding spacers err.. spacing

2010-01-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, you cannot do R1^\fermata No, but you *can* do R1^\fermataMarkup if anyone could explain why the fermata is not aligned I can't — sorry. Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Understanding spacers err.. spacing

2010-01-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:56:25PM -0500, James Lowe wrote: I had been trying to get a fermata to align centrally over the last bar which is just a full rest (yes I know it makes no sense musically but anyway..) I had been struggling. ... R1^\fermata Might I recommend looking in the index of

Re: Understanding spacers err.. spacing

2010-01-22 Thread 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

RE: Understanding spacers err.. spacing

2010-01-22 Thread James Lowe
spanner when I want it 'just so'. James -Original Message- From: Graham Percival [mailto:gra...@percival-music.ca] Sent: Fri 22/01/2010 23:07 To: James Lowe Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Understanding spacers err.. spacing On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:56:25PM -0500, James Lowe