Hello Darkijah, I’m not sure if I understand you correctly (please include a small example demonstrating your problem in such cases, because that makes understanding you problem and thus helping you much easier).
As far as I understand it, your problem is that a half note or rest takes more space than a quarter note. That is in fact intended behaviour, as the note is also twice as long. If you want a half note that actually is a quarter note looking like a half note you can scale the duration by 1/2 by r2*1/2 Also the half note rest producing two measures in a 1/4 time is expected. Basically a half note or half rest has the duration of two measures in that case, thus you get the „empty” measure. You’re talking about timeless music at the end. Note that using 1/4 measures is not the preferred way to do this in Lilypond (though it might be in other software). For short timeless passages you can use \cadenzaOn (and \cadenzaOff to deactivate). If your whole score is timeless it is advisable to remove the whole functionality of bars and Timing from Lilypond. See the appended example. Please note that using cadenzaOn will basically force Lilypond to remain within the same measure, so to get breaks you need to insert \bar "" at the places where a break should be possible. Cheers, Valentin
\score {
{ c' d' e' f' | g'2
\cadenzaOn
<<
{ a'16[ g' f' e' d' c' d']
\repeat unfold 5 {e'[ f' g' a' g' f' e' d'] }
}
\repeat unfold 47 {s16 \bar ""}
>>
\cadenzaOff c'2
}
\layout { }
}
\score {
\new Staff \repeat unfold 64 f'4
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\remove Time_signature_engraver
\remove Bar_engraver
}
\context {
\Score
\remove Timing_translator
}
}
}
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