Thanks William! That works nicely. Curiously, the bug seemed to only be manifest at the very start of a piece. A multi-measure section of silence later in the song was willing to "compress".
John ________________________________ From: William Rehwinkel Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2025 4:15 PM To: John Kopplin; bug-lilypond@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bug report concerning \compressEmptyMeasures and also \compressMMRests Dear John, If you change \repeat unfold 4 { ""1 } to ""1*4 like in the attached example, the measure compression appears to work. Does this fix the problem? -William On 3/9/25 17:47, John Kopplin wrote: > -- William Rehwinkel (any pronouns) Juilliard School '26 - Oberlin Conservatory '24 will...@williamrehwinkel.net - https://williamrehwinkel.net PGP Public Key: https://ftp.williamrehwinkel.net/pubkey.txt