r1. (or r4*6) will give you a dotted whole rest, R1. (or R4*6) will give you a whole measure rest (no dot) and both will be the right duration.
- Russ On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:07:54PM -0700, John Williams wrote: > r1 is a rest of length 1 (= 4/4), but you want 6/4. > > Try R4*6 for a single rest which fills the measure. > > > > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Aaron wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I just enter a trio which has a number of time changes. When I have > > rests in 5/4 or 6/4 measures, like measures with whole rest or combos > > that equal a whole measure lilypond reads them as one large measure and > > make the dvi also that way: > > > > 6/4 > > > > r1| > > r1 | > > r1 | > > r1 | > > r1 | > > becomes 6/4 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 | > > I can get it to work by filling the measures with half rests but it > > looks most strange. > > Am I just writing a whole rest wrong?? or is this a bug. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lilypond-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
