Re: Merging rests with two voices on one staff

2010-02-15 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
Mats, Thanks for the pointer. Somehow, I think of better search terms when I know there's something to find. The discussion that I found shows how to merge full- and multi-measure rests explicitly, when the corresponding rests have been identified (this seems to be essentially the same idea shown

Re: Merging rests with two voices on one staff

2010-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 14:16 +0100, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > On 12 February 2010 17:54, Michael J. O'Donnell > > > I also need to merge whole-measure and multi-measure rests, which, alas, > > the snippet doesn't cover. I will poke into extending the snippet. If > > you've already tried, and know w

Re: Merging rests with two voices on one staff

2010-02-14 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 12 February 2010 17:54, Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: > Thanks for the tip. That gets me a long way. You're welcome! > I also need to merge whole-measure and multi-measure rests, which, alas, > the snippet doesn't cover. I will poke into extending the snippet. If > you've already tried, and k

Re: Merging rests with two voices on one staff

2010-02-12 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
Thanks for the tip. That gets me a long way. I also need to merge whole-measure and multi-measure rests, which, alas, the snippet doesn't cover. I will poke into extending the snippet. If you've already tried, and know why it's hard, please warn me. Thanks, Mike O'Donnell Xavier Scheuer wrote:

Re: Merging rests with two voices on one staff

2010-02-12 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 12 February 2010 17:28, Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: > I am setting S-A-T-B choral music on two staves, S-A on treble and T-B > on bass. Most of the time, the two voices on a staff have the same > rests, which look much better when they are merged. I haven't found a > command to do this automat

Merging rests with two voices on one staff

2010-02-12 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
I am setting S-A-T-B choral music on two staves, S-A on treble and T-B on bass. Most of the time, the two voices on a staff have the same rests, which look much better when they are merged. I haven't found a command to do this automatically. I have been making a separate voice of shared rests, and