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 -- Free download of technical exercises worth a lifetime of practice: "Dynamic Guitar Technique": http://www.openguitar.com/instruction.html email: "David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or use [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.openguitar.com/contact.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user