On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I was reading the lilypond example page > > > > http://lilypond.org/stable/examples.html > > > > and looking at the first page of the first example (Petite Ouverture ...) > > it seems that a rest can have an incorrect vertical position. E.g. in bars > > 12 and 13 the second quaver (eighth note) rest is in line with the upper > > note (the A) instead of the lower pair of notes. The rest should be placed > > out of the way of the A because the A _exists_ at the same time as the > > rest, but it seems lilypond won't do this unless the other note (the A in > > this example) actually _starts_ at the same time as the rest. > > I agree that this would be a nice feature. However, handling collisions > between different voices is a very intricate matter and there will > always be a number of special cases that cannot be handled > automatically. > > > [This is slightly surprising because it means that rests are being treated > > differently from notes.] > > Of course they are, since rests don't have a prescribed vertical > position, in contrast to notes. > > > > I looked for discussion of this problem, but I couldn't find any in the > > support mailing lists (perhaps I didn't look properly). It would be nice > > to know if the problem is due to be fixed or if there is a work-around. > > I hope the main authors of Lilypond put this on the feature request list > for future versions. If you know some C++ yourself, please feel free to > try to implement it. > In the mean time, you can explicitly specify the vertical position of > each rest, using the \rest command, see > http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Rests.html
Thank you for the very prompt help. > > > /Mats > If you have time, perhaps you could answer a further question. I was trying to convert a midi file into lilypond, but I couldn't make midi2ly produce a very good job. The note durations appear wrong because they are done using '*', there are no rests typset and some notes are ignored altogether. Am I using the wrong utility, or using it in the wrong way? I would be willing to write a better version if there isn't one already, but I don't want to waste time writing something if it already exists somewhere. I think it would be useful to have such a thing because there is a lot of free midi stuff out there which could then be converted into score form. Alex _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
