Re: Markup for cadenza rest

2007-03-22 Thread Benjamin Esham
Mats Bengtsson wrote: I am typesetting a horn part from a piano concerto, and I'm having difficulty with the "Cadenza" rests in the piece. What I would like is a rest in the staff—it can be a 4-beat rest, like r1, a full- measure rest, like R1, or a long multi-measure rest, with the h

Re: Markup for cadenza rest

2007-03-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You should definitely use R1^\markup{...} One method to get the horizontal size the way you want it is to manually specify the width, such as \override MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #10 I couldn't find any method to let LilyPond figure out the width automatically. /Mats Benjamin Esham

Markup for cadenza rest

2007-03-21 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, I am typesetting a horn part from a piano concerto, and I'm having difficulty with the "Cadenza" rests in the piece. What I would like is a rest in the staff—it can be a 4-beat rest, like r1, a full- measure rest, like R1, or a long multi-measure rest, with the horizontal bar;