On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:58 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: > So I finally separated the dynamics from the notes, and it works!!!!! But I > had a couple of problems: > > 1) Whenever both instruments have a rest, Lilypond stacks them vertically. > James Bailey sent me a link to a snippet that fixes that. (How did he know > that was going to be my next problem?)
I'm prescient! > My question is, "Why is that a snippet? Given that merging the rests is the > standard way to engrave them under those circumstances, could Lilypond not > just do it and make me have to find a different snippet if that's not what I > want? Because depending on the kind of music, it's different. Vocal music usually has the rests merged; whereas instrumental music does not. > Or at just provide the merge-rests-on-positioning function and mention it in > the docs?" > > 2) In another measure the upper voice has a quarter rest followed by a half > note on the bottom line of the staff. The lower voice has a dotted half rest. > The problem here is that the half note in the upper voice is so low on the > staff that it prints over the rest in the lower voice. These voices share a > staff in the score, but not in the individual parts. Can you actually provide an example of how you've done this? I can't for the life of me figure out how you get the collision. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
