2013/5/11 Peter Toye <lilyp...@ptoye.com>: > I'm trying to position whole-bar rests onto the bottom line of the staff to > keep them out of the way of the cues, and can't get it to work. > > I'm still a newbie, and have found out about the \rest command, but this > gives me two problems: > > 1) it doesn't apply to whole bar rests, so the horizontal position of the > rest is at the beginning of the bar rather than in the middle. > > 2) the vertical positioning seems wrong. If I use (in 2/4 time) e2\rest I > get a minim rest on the bottom line of the staff (as I'd expect, but don't > want). If I use e1*1/2\rest I get a full-bar rest on the 2nd line up, which > is the correct rest but one line too high. In all cases I get the error > message (which is probably allied to this): > > > c:/users/peter_2/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-owqqgx/tmpjehynm/Bridge3.ly:6:11: > warning: cannot resolve rest collision: rest direction not set > RestText= { > e2\rest} > > > Regards, > > Peter > mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com > www.ptoye.com
Hi Peter, please post _every_ time a tiny example, including the used version. The warning likely depends on your code-set-up. Positioning of MultiMeasureRest can be modified with \override MultiMeasureRest #'staff-position = #-4 HTH, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user