Yes I saw that once I had spent far too long on this little experiment. 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 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 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 Notation, and following the index entry "fermata on multi-measure rest" ? or "multi-measure rest, attaching fermata" ? Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user