Re: offset not working

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Kris Shaffer wrote:
> Mats,
> Thanks for helping me find the init files.  Filename searches in Mac OS 
> X  Panther do not search the contents of *.app packages, which is why 
> my  searching came up empty.  But lilypond --verbose told me where to look.
>
> So now I know why no-spacing-rods does not work, and thus why fatText 
> does  not work, however I still don't know how to get a multirest bar 
> to  accomodate the width of markup text.  I have gotten close with
>
>       << { R1*4 } \\ { \fatText s1*4^\markup { \override 
> #'(baseline-skip  . 0.5) \column { \line { etwas ruhiger } werdend } } 
> \emptyText } >>
>
> The width of the bar expands to contain the text, but the multirest is 
> too  high by two staff lines.  And according to the manual, you cannot 
> adjust  the "pitch" of a multirest to move it up and down.  If there is 
> another  way to move the multirest up and down (and keep it centered), 
> then this  hack will work.  Is that possible?  Or is there another 
> solution to this?   Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Why don't you simply set the minimum-length property on 
MultiMeasureRest(Text)?

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