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

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