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Subject: Re: Duration shortcut not working for rests
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 17:19:42 -0500
From: William Ashton <will...@ashtonfam.org>
To: Jakob Pedersen <jak...@vivaldi.net>
Part of what may be confusing me is that when defining a \new Dynamics
voice, I will use only spacer rests, and I typically only specify the
first "s", leaving only the durations for the rest of the piece. For
example...
\new Dynamics {
s1
| 1
| 2\< 2\>
| 1\!
}
Yet, if I try similar in a music expression with pitches, it refuses to
remember the spacers.
\version "2.25.6"
{
c'4 4 4 4
% These 4s are "c"s instead of rests
| r4 4 4 4
% These are still "c"s
| s4 4 4 4
}
The behavior changed. Why?
On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 5:11 PM William Ashton <will...@ashtonfam.org> wrote:
Sure. I recognize that that would work. I guess the question more
directly would be "do isolated durations only work for notes?" In
this slightly adjusted example, I would expect the "4"s in the first
measure to remember the "c'", and the "4"s in the second measure to
remember the "r".
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#durations
\version "2.25.6"
{
c'4 4 4 4
% These 4s are "c"s instead of rests
| r4 4 4 4
}
On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 5:06 PM Jakob Pedersen <jak...@vivaldi.net>
wrote:
Hi William,
If you want to write more rests, the syntax is
r4 r r b
Much like
c'4 r e f
are all quarter notes and a quarter rest.
Lilypond remembers the duration, but needs to know what to print
with that duration.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 03.02.2024 22.55, William Ashton wrote:
Hello all,
Am I misunderstanding something, or is this a bug? Since the
"r4" at the start of the second measure is fully qualified, I
was expecting the "4"s that follow it to be quarter rests as
well, but I'm seeing "c"s in the rendered output.
\version "2.25.6"
{
c'4 r r r
% The middle 4s are "c"s instead of rests
| r4 4 4 b
}
