2007/9/4, Tomas Valusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > > There really is no mysetery here. r2. gives you a dotted half-note > > rest. In 3/4 time, R2. gives you a full-measure rest. Use whichever > > type of rest you want to see in your score. > > > > Please note that there is a difference between 4 beats of rest (r1) and > > a whole-measure rest ( R +beats_in_your_bar ) > > I find i bit of bureaucracy in Lilypond. If this tool is primarily for > musicians, than it should respect musical way of using symbols. If it's for > computer freaks, than it can obey programmers' way of thinking. > > Why I say this? Whole-bar rest is a shortcut, used in multi-part scores to > indicate a rest for a whole measure REGARDLESS of beats contained in > specific measures. So I think that requiring duration for R symbol is > anoyance for musicians. I should be able to say R and lilypond should use > proper length for such rest. Instead, I'm forced to remember a specific time > signature, since R is just a name of symbol, not a function returning proper > duration. And if Lilypond's philosophy is "do automatically all what you can > do", than R should never require additional length modifier, since it should > always say "it's a whole-measure rest, and Lilypond knows well, how many > beats this measure contains". > > It should be even possible to say e.g. 4R, where two measures are 2/4 and > another two 3/4 - time-signature engraver is score-wide, not staff wide by > default.
And what happens if you then change the time-signature of the two 2/4 measures to one with 4/4? Then everything gets shifted ... I don´t think this is what you want to have, do you? Dominic
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