Pierre-Luc Gauthier <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there a way to prevent multi-measure-rest (MMR) breaking?
>
> I often use "s"s (e.g. s1*4 ) to trigger events, cue notes, etc, and
> some of them do not display anything at all (and it's ok). My problem
> arise when I use MMR combined with multiple s expressions. Somehow,
> s1*2 =/= {s1 s1} and I don't understand why
s1*2 is a skip of duration 1*2 meaning that it _looks_ like s1 but takes
double the actual time. {s1 s1} takes the same total time but consists
of two separate skips.
> nor have I found a workaround.
>
> In my MWE bellow, I would expect the MMR to be whole (6 bars) but
> instead, it is spliced in 3 MMRs of 2 bars.
>
> \version "2.19.55"
>
> \new Staff \new Voice <<
> \compressFullBarRests
> { R1*6 }
> {
> s1*2 | % MMR breaker
> s1*2 | % MMR breaker
> }
>>>
>
> Any thoughts on how to solve this?
Don't use s1*2 but s1*4 here. Multi measure rests are only compressed
when there is no musical event intervening in parallel.
--
David Kastrup
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