On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM josh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings. How would one best control the horizontal spacing/length of a > multi-measure rest? > > I am compiling a book filled with numerous, shorter exercises that > would, ideally, be placed all on one line. Many of them begin and end > with a two measure rest and I need make those as horizontally short as > possible to give the notes and dynamics enough room on the page. > > I have tried using the method here - > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#full-measure-rests > - but it didn't work. > If you change your override of expand-limit to 10: \override MultiMeasureRest.expand-limit = #10 Does that do what you want? Instead of showing a long bar with the number 2, it shows a small bar with 2 above it. HTH, Carl
