Hi Kevin,
> I need to add a voice with notes that are a) invisible and b) have no effect
> on the spacing of other music on the staff. I haven't found a way to do this
What about:
\score {
\new Staff <<
\mark \markup "rests, omitted"
\global
\new Voice \relative {
bes,8-\twe
Dear All,
I frequently need to have overlapping horizontal brackets. This means that
I have to add hidden notes to my scores to attach them to. (Brackets won't
attach to spacer rests unless they live in a Staff context, in which case
you can't have more than one at a time. Adding brackets to both