Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-02 Thread Karen Billings
Thank you so much for your help - using R1 instead of r1 did the trick. I don't know how, in a year's worth of reading documentation, the sentence "Whole measure rests, centered in the middle of the measure, must be entered as multi-measure rests." in section 1.2.2 of the Notation Reference never

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > On Fri 02 Sep 2016 at 06:55:31 (+0200), Remy CLAVERIE wrote: >> Hi David, >> What is the book that you named 'NM' ? > > Sorry,... The Notation Manual for LilyPond. The "official" abbreviation for that is actually NR (as in "Notation Reference", the proper title of the manu

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread Remy CLAVERIE
  Thanks a lot, Rémy       > Message du 02/09/16 07:03 > De : "David Wright" > A : "Remy CLAVERIE" > Copie à : lilypond-user@gnu.org, "Karen Billings" > Objet : Re: Horizontal positioning of rests > > On Fri 02 Sep 2016 at 06:55:31 (+02

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Sep 2016 at 06:55:31 (+0200), Remy CLAVERIE wrote: > Hi David, > What is the book that you named 'NM' ? Sorry,... The Notation Manual for LilyPond. Page references are from the PDF for the 2.18.2 version that Karen uses in the example: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notatio

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread Remy CLAVERIE
Hi David,   What is the book that you named 'NM' ? Thanks a lot Rémy           > Message du 02/09/16 05:15 > De : "David Wright" > A : "Karen Billings" > Copie à : "Lilypond-User Mailing List" > Objet : Re: Horizontal position

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Sep 2016 at 20:49:04 (+), Karen Billings wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry to bother you with a beginner's problem... I have been using Lilypond > for about a year now, and all that time I have had problems with rest > positioning. I've been dealing with it, but it's becoming more of a probl

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.09.2016 00:15, Carl Sorensen wrote: P.S. If you want a whole-measure rest for a 3/4 measure, you enter it as R1*3/4 Or R2. or R4*3 … doesn’t matter. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/1/16 2:49 PM, "Karen Billings" wrote: > >The documentation states that rests are, by default, always centered >horizontally. For some reason, mine always end up left-justified. What >am I doing wrong and how can I correct it? You want to use a whole-measure rest R instead of a regular

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Karen Billings writes: > >> Hi all, >> Sorry to bother you with a beginner's problem... I have been using >> Lilypond for about a year now, and all that time I have had problems >> with rest positioning. I've been dealing with it, but it's becoming >> more of a problem no

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Karen Billings writes: > Hi all, > Sorry to bother you with a beginner's problem... I have been using > Lilypond for about a year now, and all that time I have had problems > with rest positioning. I've been dealing with it, but it's becoming > more of a problem now that trying to read multi-line

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.09.2016 22:49, Karen Billings wrote: Sorry to bother you with a beginner's problem... I have been using Lilypond for about a year now, and all that time I have had problems with rest positioning. I've been dealing with it, but it's becoming more of a problem now that trying to read multi-

Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello Karen, R2 instead of r2\rest solves the issue for the first measure on staff 3. JM > Le 1 sept. 2016 à 22:49, Karen Billings a écrit : > > Hi all, > > Sorry to bother you with a beginner's problem... I have been using Lilypond > for about a year now, and all that time I have had proble

Horizontal positioning of rests

2016-09-01 Thread Karen Billings
Hi all, Sorry to bother you with a beginner's problem... I have been using Lilypond for about a year now, and all that time I have had problems with rest positioning. I've been dealing with it, but it's becoming more of a problem now that trying to read multi-line scores... The documentation sta