Seth -----Original Message----- From: Seth Williamson <hazelmo...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:27:29 -0500 To: "lilypond-user@gnu.org" <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: How to make multi-measure rest physically longer?
>A buddy of mine who is further along with LilyPond coding than I am >helped me with transposing a solo piece I have to do before long. (The >Aldo Forte "Canzonetta for Euphonium and Band.") > >He encountered this situation: in the original bass-clef printed copy of >the solo, there's a six-bar multi-measure rest just before a rehearsal >mark, and a ten-bar multi-measure immediately afterward. Then, after a >single-measure time change, there's a five-bar multi-measure rest. > >But if he coded the rests with the values I have described, there is >physically not enough room above the line to get in some mark-up language >above the music both before and after the multi-measure rests. > >In order to get enough room to get the language printed without cramping >(some tempo stuff, quarter note equals metronome marking, etc.), he had >to break up the first six bars of rest into three units of two each, and >break up the ten bars of rest into two groups of two and eight, and the >five bars into one and four. This gave him the space he needed for the >markup language. > >My question is this: is it possible to print the multi-measure rest >sections with the values they have in the original copy (much easier to >read and count that way), except physically lengthened so there's room >before and after the rests to get in the tempo language? > >I have looked around but don't see a solution. I'm figuring, though, >that there must be a way to do this. Can somebody tell me how to handle >this situation? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#full-mea sure-rests Also scroll down a bit and look for the snippet 'Multi-measure rest markup' Also what you can perhaps do is an override - for example I use the following 3 settings \compressFullBarRests \override MultiMeasureRest #'expand-limit = #8 \override MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #15 ------ \override MultiMeasureRest #'expand-limit = #8 this sets the number of rests before we make the full measure rest. So in this example if you typed R1*8 or any number 8 or larger or had 8 or more consecutive full bar rests, you would get the single 'multi-measure' rest icon. Then I use this override with different numbers \override MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #15 For any measure that contains an 'R' there is a minimum width this measure is 15 (I forget the units) but you can increase as you need. If you set either of these override at the beginning of your piece *all* multi-measure rests will be this big. So if you want 'some' rests to be larger than others you need to use the \once \override MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #X where X is the number you want immediately before the multi-measure rest entry in your music. I hope this helps. james > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
