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 couldn't get it to work without manual shifting. However if I use real notes instead of spacers it seems to work so I wondered if anyone could explain why the fermata is not aligned when using spacers only as it is when using real notes in the example below because I was expecting a spacer in this context to act like a note at least in spacing within a measure. I hope that makes sense -- \version "2.13.9" Music = \relative c'' { \time 9/8 << { R4.*3 } \\ { c8 c c c c^\fermata c c c c } >> % This works << { R4.*3 } \\ { s8 s s s s^\fermata s s s s } >> % This is off-centre << { R4.*3 } \\ { s8 c s c s^\fermata c s c s } >> % This works } \score { \Music } -- James _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user