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. > > I have an example attached. > Josh, When I try your example, it doesn't work, in part, because you force the system count to 1, so the line of music is more crowded than lilypond's desired spacing. You can shorten the space taken by multimeasure rests a little bit, by setting the Staff.MultiMeasureRest.space-increment. When I set it less than 0.8, the change is imperceptible to my eye. Are you making this example on a landscape page? Sorry I can't be of more help. Carl
