Re: RhythmicStaff not squasing out all the noteheads

[Graham Percival]

Thanks for the report!  This is a feature request, not a bug, but it's 
worth adding:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=185

Cheers,
- Graham

Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote:
> The RhythmicStaff is not squashing out all the noteheads like it should be. 
> It is common to want to re-use the notes of a chord progression as either a
> rhythmic staff or a notes staff (to avoid having to write more music just
> for the rhythmic staff).  When you use chords on RhythmicStaff it is not
> squashing out the noteheads.  IOW RhythmicStaff should only recognize
> durations and not care about notes.  Here is sample code that demonstrates
> the bug:
>
> \new RhythmicStaff {
>      \time 4/4
>      <c e g>2
>      <c e g>2
>      <c e g>2
>      <c e g>4
>      <c e g>4
> }
>
> \new RhythmicStaff {
>      \time 4/4
>      <c>2
>      <e>2
>      <g>2
>      <c>4
>      <e>4
> }