\omit dynamic occupies space

2016-04-25 Thread Graham King
The Notation Reference says [1]: " omit [music] - item (symbol list or music): Set item's "stencil" property to #f, effectively omitting it without taking up space. " However, when applied to dynamics, space is taken up. This is inconvenient, as one has to resort to \tag #'pdf {...} and \tag #'mi

long dynamic strings displace low notes

2016-04-25 Thread Graham King
First, an apology to the developers, and in particular to Harm, for my previous, hasty, attempt to report this in March, which must have appeared selfishly peremptory. Fortunately the message seems not to have reached this list and, now that there's a gap in the rest of life I can have another go: