Thanks for the tip. That gets me a long way.

I also need to merge whole-measure and multi-measure rests, which, alas,
the snippet doesn't cover. I will poke into extending the snippet. If
you've already tried, and know why it's hard, please warn me.

Thanks,

Mike O'Donnell

Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> On 12 February 2010 17:28, Michael J. O'Donnell
> <michael_odonn...@acm.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> I am setting S-A-T-B choral music on two staves, S-A on treble and T-B
>> on bass. Most of the time, the two voices on a staff have the same
>> rests, which look much better when they are merged. I haven't found a
>> command to do this automatically. I have been making a separate voice of
>> shared rests, and replacing the rests that should be merged from the
>> individual voices with skips. The labor is getting to be annoying.
>>
>> So, any hints about automatic merging of rests in single-staff polyphony
>> will be greatly valued.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     
>
> Merging rests automatically...
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336
>
> should do the trick.  ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier
>
> --
> Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com>
>
>   


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