Re: Multiple markings

[David Kastrup]

Wols Lists <address@hidden> writes:

> On 07/02/17 13:39, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>> Hi Wols,
>> 
>>> I mean that the code for RehearsalMark was just a wrapper round an
>>> ordinary mark. So if you tried to put both on the same barline, the
>>> underlying engine just saw two ordinary marks, and threw one away. That
>>> was very frustrating back then.
>> 
>> What exactly do you mean by “back then”?
>> 
>> I can’t even remember a time when this was a problem, and I’ve been
>> using Lilypond since 2003.
>> Perhaps by complete coincidence I just never had \mark and \tempo at
>> the same moment until 2.17 (when I know for sure it worked fine).
>> 
> Before then :-) - some time last century :-)
>
> I started using lily with 2.4, and I was forever cursing that "feature".
> I don't know if the empty chord workaround worked then, either.
> Certainly I didn't know of it.
>
> I thought you wrote the code that sorted it.

You are probably confusing Kieren MacMillan with Keith O'Hara.

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David Kastrup