\omit dynamic occupies space

[Graham King]

The Notation Reference says [1]: " omit [music] - item (symbol list or
music): Set item's "stencil" property to #f, effectively omitting it
without taking up space. "

However, when applied to dynamics, space is taken up.  This is
inconvenient, as one has to resort to \tag #'pdf {...} and \tag #'midi
{...} constructs to recover the space.

        
        \version "2.19.40"
        
        { 
          <>^\markup "no dynamics"
          c'2\< 2\! 2\> 2\!
          <>^\markup "\omit dynamics"
          c'2-\omit\p\< 2-\omit\f 2-\omit\f\> 2-\omit\p
        }




Hope this helps
-- Graham

[1]
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/available-music-functions#index-omit

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