Hi Mark,
Am 27.11.22 um 04:01 schrieb Mark Mathias:
Using \rest, I can place rests from each of two voices on a staff on
top of each other without interference, thereby allowing use of the
material from each voice in separate scores elsewhere without editing.
Cf:
To explicitly specify a rest’s vertical position, write a note
followed by |\rest|. A rest of the duration of the note will be
placed at the staff position where the note would appear. This
allows for precise manual formatting of polyphonic music, since
the automatic rest collision formatter will not move these rests.
The problem is that if the rests are dotted, the automatic rest
collision formatter forces the dots to be moved even though the rests
stay in place:
\version "2.22.2"
\relative c'' {
<<
b2.\rest
\\
b2.\rest
>>
}
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? Or maybe it's a bug?
You might do
\version "2.22.2"
\relative c'' {
<<
b2.\rest
\\
\once\omit Dots
b2.\rest
>>
}
but there's a probably better way: Namely, we now have the
Merge_rests_engraver. So you can do:
\version "2.22.2"
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\consists Merge_rests_engraver
}
}
{
<<
\relative {
r2. d''8 e
f4 r r8 e d e
c4 r
}
\\ \relative {
r2. b'8 c
d4 r b a8 b
c4 r
}
>>
}
See also
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices.html#merging-rests
Lukas
