Re: add articulation support to multi measure rests (issue 562710043 by address@hidden)

[David Kastrup]

Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:

> On Apr 27, 2019, at 04:54, address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>> Multimeasure rests can be split into multiple rests and across lines.
>> That's what makes then a Spanner rather than an Item and is the main
>> cause of this complication.  How are you dealing with such a split?  A
>> fermata only makes sense on the last such rest, most text markups make
>> sense only on the first such rest.
>
> See Malte’s answer when I raised the same concern:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2019-04/msg00087.html
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2019-04/msg00087.html>
>
> It’s a bit long to quote, but his major premise is that \fermata on a
> compressed multimeasure rest is ambiguous to the point of being
> useless.

But we are talking about a \fermata on an _uncompressed_ multimeasure
rest here.  If the compression leaves just a single rest, placing the
fermata does not pose a conundrum to typesetting (it may pose one to the
musician but that's entirely the composer's choice and fault).

-- 
David Kastrup