On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:16, Graham Percival wrote:
>
> On 8-Apr-06, at 8:13 PM, Tomas Valusek wrote:
>
> >> You want to use
> >> R2.
> >> R1 produces 4 beats, just like r1. R2. produces 3 beats.
> >> I'll clarify this in the docs.
> >
> > But the point of whole-bar rest is that composer/copyist doesn't
need
> > to care about time signature when using them - at least, that's what
I
> > explain to my pupils why it is possible to see the whole rest in
bars
> > containing less than 4 quarter beats.
>
> Yes, but the whole point of the duration "1" in LilyPond is that it
> occupies four quarter notes. :)
>
> In all seriousness, having a \wholeBarRest command would involve a
> nontrivial amount of extra programming. As long as the documentation
> is clear as to what R1 vs. R2. does, I think it's ok. BTW, when lily
> 2.8.2 comes out, please look at the docs and let me know if it's clear
> (my updates won't be on the web until then). I'm quite open to
> changing the docs, but you'll need to tell me exactly what to change.
Wouldn't
threst = \times 4/3{R2.}
do it? daveA
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