Re: very long rests...

[David Kastrup]

Arno Waschk <address@hidden> writes:

> dear list,
>
> i have the following problem:
>
> I have a pretty long score (1+ hour, 1200+ bars) with many time
> changes (800+ i guess).
> Now at several points the thing i need to write is "Multi-measure-rest
> until bar 1100" or a similar long skip. Where bar 1100 could have a
> label or the like...
> The only way i see is to manually calculate the length of all the
> individual measures until the point i want it to be and then write
> "R1*7453/16" or so...
> Remember the many many time changes, so it would not be simply R1*1100
> from the beginning, or R1*500 from bar 600 ...
> Is there something to make lilypond calculate that length by itself?

Would #(mmrest-of-length identifier) help?

-- 
David Kastrup