Re: very long rests...

[Gilles]

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

You can indeed manually, extract the 1100 measures of an instruments and
assign it to an identifier.
You can also consider functions described here :
   http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=542
that can do the extraction automatically, like in this example :

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\include "extractMusic.ly"

global = {
           \time 4/4 s1*2
           \time 5/8 s8*5*2
           \time 12/8 s8*12*2
           \time 4/4 s1*4
           % measure 10
}

music =  \repeat unfold 82 b8

fragBegin = \extractBegin \mmR \upToMeasure #6 % Rest
fragEnd = \extractEnd \music \upToMeasure #6    % music
newMusic = { <>_"Rest" \fragBegin
             <>_"music again" \fragEnd }

\score { <<
  \new Staff <<\global \music >>
  \new Staff <<\global \newMusic >>
 >>
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

download link directory for extractMusic.ly :
  http://gillesth.free.fr/Lilypond/extractMusic/
See the small doc also included in this directory, for more details.


--
Gilles