Re: fermata and text (markup) on/above one note

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/2/15, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:

> To understand why, you have to understand what the default setting
>  of DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-extent does, namely to calculate the actual
>  extent of the included dynamics indications. Then, once this has done,
>  the placement of the full DynamicLineSpanner is determined using the
>  padding and staff-padding properties, that specify the distance from
>  the upper edge of the full DynamicLineSpanner to the closest note and/or
>  staff. When you instead specify a fixed value of Y-extent, LilyPond
>  won't care about the actual extent of the dynamics and align it as if
>  the top was at, say, 1 (if you set #'Y-extent = #'(-1 . 1)) relative to
>  the internal reference point of the DynamicLineSpanner. To complete the
>  picture, every element included in the DynamicLineSpanner, such as a
>  Hairpin or DynamicText makes its own alignment relative to the
>  reference point of the DynamicLineSpanner.

Quite interesting... But doesn't that make some collisions more likely
to happen?

Anyway, here's a snippet to demonstrate your point (tell me if my
explanations aren't correct).
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=387

Cheers,
Valentin