Re: horizontal offset bug of skip markups

[Trevor Daniels]

Werner LEMBERG wrote Monday, August 24, 2009 9:52 PM


> > I would argue against introducing this complication.  Positioning
> > spacer rests differently to notes of the same duration does not 
> > seem
> > a good idea.
>
> Well, my example shows that it actually uses a *different* 
> position
> compared to the full rest -- if we follow your suggestion, this is 
> a
> real bug then.

No, what I meant is illustrate by this:


\layout {
 ragged-right = ##f
}
\score { {
 s1
 \time 7/8 a'8*7^"foobar"
} }
\score { {
 s1
 \time 7/8 s8*7^"foobar"
} }

Both the note and the spacer in the second
bar are positioned in roughly the centre of
the bar, although interestingly not quite in
identical positions.  I don't know why they
differ slightly, but you see my point.

> > After all, it is very easy to place the markup where you want it 
> > by
> > simply using two spacer notes:
> >
> > foo = {
> >  s1
> >  \time 7/8 s8^"foobar" s8*6
> >  \time 10/8
> > }
>
> OK, I haven't thought of that solution, thanks.  This should 
> perhaps
> be added to the documentation.

Well, it's sort of hinted at in NR 1.2.3, in
the snippet right at the end of Full measure
rests, entitled "Multi-measure rest markup".
It shows you there how to position markup at
the start of a multi-measure rest.  But if
you try to apply that technique to your
example you'll find it doesn't work.  It seems
that example is a rather fortuitous special
case which works only because of the extra
markup.  It's beginning to look as if there
might be a bug here after all.  I'll look at
it tomorrow in more detail.

Trevor