Re: rests

[David Raleigh Arnold]

Chris Jackson wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:25:57PM +0200, Rune Zedeler wrote:
>
> > Chris Jackson wrote:
> >
> >
> > > What's happening with rests at the moment? r4 currently gives
> > > an r8, and r8 gives a classical r4 (a reflected r8).
> > You haven't uninstalled the old fonts correctly. Remove any old
> > feta-fonts, make -C mf/ clean, and make install.
>
> Hmm, I used the clean-fonts script, but looks like there were still some
> lying around (Debian). It doesn't matter, it's working now, probably
> won't be able to reproduce what happened. 
>
>
> > > I didn't realise we had classical quarter rests - they're not
> > > documented (what's supposed to be the syntax?). Not that I'd
> > > want to use the nasty things - they're a PITA when reading
> > > music!


Yes they are, and they were the cause of many engraving errors.
Consequently the S or Z rest came into use sometime between 1808
and 1826 and until the 1880's when piano music publishers decided
to go back to Gutenberg's letter R it was standard.  It's still
better.
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