Re: How to reserve more space for fermata mark (to prevent large vertical shifts)

[Janek Warchoł]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer
<address@hidden> wrote:
> \relative c''' {
>   R1 \mark \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" }
>   a4(^"rit." b c) r
> }
>
> Does anyone know a way to make the mark reserve more horizontal space
> (i.e. shift the following notes to the right) so that the fermata is
> placed directly above the staff?

I hoped that overriding NoteHead's or NoteColumn's X-extent would do
the trick, but unfortunately not.  However, overriding it for Stem
seems to give you what you want.

hth,
Janekp