Flaming Hakama by Elaine <ela...@flaminghakama.com> writes: > --------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: David Bellows <davebell...@gmail.com> >> To: >> Cc: lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org> >> Bcc: >> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:36:33 -0800 >> Subject: Re: Repeated durations: pitches vs rests >> Hey Martin, >> >> > perhaps by giving a minimal example of the particular situation you >> have, where you feel a “tied rest” is the best possible solution, other >> people could give you better approaches. >> >> Check out the email I sent just a few minutes before yours, it goes >> into greater detail about why I want this particular behavior. The >> short of it is that it allows me to treat something like "4~ 16" as a >> single duration object (like "4", "4.", "4..", "4...", etc) making it >> easy to look it up in a table and result in Lilypond correctly >> printing out pitches or rests. So "c4~ 16" would print a C quarter >> note tied to a 16th note and a "r4~ 16" would print a quarter note >> rest followed by a 16th note rest. >> >> Hope these two emails make it clearer why I want to do this. >> >> Dave > > > > I admit that I haven't been following this thread super closely, > > So I don't know if this will help you, > > but if you want a single object equivalent to r4 ~ 16, > > you can do r4*5/4
No, that kind of fill-in only works in MIDI and with multi-measure rests. For ordinary rests, you only get a single glyph which is not the same as r4 r16 . -- David Kastrup
