Hello everyone, Talking about merging rests and typography automation, I've often been wondering if it could be possible for LilyPond to automatically correct rests typography, even inside a single Voice context.
Let me explain myself: I don't know if I'm the only one here to have bad typographical habits, but I use to write rests too quickly, and therefore I often find myself with odd things such as c4 d r r | r r r e | f1 instead of c4 d r2 | r2 r4 e | f1 ...it's not _that_ bad, but it does look ugly. If I may take a somehox far-fetched example, think about those every-day MS Word users who compulsively press their spacebar or Tab key to get the indent they want, instead of using rulers; they have to put *exactly* the same number of spaces each time they start a new paragraph, etc, though LaTeX for instance could solve their problem quite easily (in LaTeX, no matter how spaces you put, you get automatically the best result you could hope). To my mind, LilyPond should be able to automatically "group" rests, to prevent lazy users to get incorrect typographies such as: c4 r r r | or c4 r8 r r r r r | or c4 r2 r4 | or even c4 r2. | %(though I don't know if this could be accepted) instead of c4 r r2 | %(which is, I think, the only way this should be printed) What do you think about this behavior (which, by the way, could extend Arvid's proposal, and which I am myself willing to sponsor too)? Regards, Valentin Villenave. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
