On 23/04/16 01:52, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
>> It strikes me as conceptually problematic to try to put a fermata on a 
>> multi-measure rest.
>> Who does this, and what does it mean, musically?
>> In this example, you are actually placing a fermata on a single bar of rest.
>> In which case, this works fine:
>> { \compressFullBarRests f1->\fermata R1*3 r1\fermata }
> 
> Except r1\fermata and R1\fermataMarkup look and behave differently.
> And the difference gets even more obvious when you have a measure not in 4/4.
> =)
> 
And my mind is still stuck in the old days when neither of those worked,
but

\bar "||" \fermata

did :-) I think a load of my old code still has \markup #script.ufermata
or whatever it was all over the place trying to get them above notes ...

Cheers,
Wol


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