Re: fermata not shown at playing parts

[Urs Liska]

Am 17.07.2010 17:05, schrieb James Lowe:
> play brass in an orchestra...you get all sorts on multi measure rests (and 
> there are soooooooo many rests!
Playing Celesta can be even more "fun". At my last orchestral concert my 
first notes happened to be 32 minutes after the beginning of the symphony...
> not that I'm bitter)... particularly what we would call in lilypond world a 
> text spanner (rit, dim etc) if that counts. But mainly markup text is always on 
> multi measure rests in my scores.
>
> Playing 52 bars rest Largo is tough going I can tell you!
>    
My favourite is having 52 bars with changing meters but only one 
multi-measure rest. (This also happens, especially in hand-written parts).

Best
Urs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden on behalf of David Kastrup
> Sent: Sat 7/17/2010 9:13
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: fermata not shown at playing parts
>
> "Trevor Daniels"<address@hidden>  writes:
>
>    
> > Carl Sorensen wrote Saturday, July 17, 2010 6:10 AM
> >
> >      
> > > But in the Expressive Marks section there is no text outside of an
> > > example
> > > that describes using fermata as an articulation.  (There is an index
> > > entry
> > > for \fermata, however).
> > >        
> > OK, I've added a para to Articulations and ornaments in Expressive
> > marks:
> >
> > "Articulations can be attached to rests as well as notes but they
> > cannot be attached to multi-measure rests.  A special predefined
> > command, @code{\fermataMarkup}, is available for attaching a fermata
> > to a multi-measure rest (and only a multi-measure rest).  This
> > creates a @code{MultiMeasureRestText} object."
> >
> > together with an example to show how these are used.
> >      
> Wouldn't it make more sense if articulations were siphoned off a
> multimeasure and tacked back on by the multimeasure engraver?
>
> On the other hand, I have a hard time imagining what this should be
> equivalent to when expanded.  Fermata on the last bar?  If so, I'd
> likely place the fermata after the multimeasure rest symbol.
>
> What other articulations are to be expected on multimeasure rests?
>
>