Re: common rests between two voices in one staff

[Mats Bengtsson]

Here's a third to answer your request. Take a look at 
\partcombine, see 
http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Automatic-part-combining.html

   /Mats

> I am just doing some SATB pieces and I wonder if there is a way
> to share common rests between the two voices of one staff.
> 
> The default behaviour for something like the following is that there
> are two rests generated, one typeset above the other.
> 
> I know of the possibility to use s instead of r in one of the voices,
> but consider this more to be a workaround, then a solution because it
> makes voice extracts a little uncomfortable.
> 
> thanks in advance for any comments and ideas
> 
> ------sample--------
> \score {
>       \context Staff = women <
>               \notes \context Voice = soprano {
>                       r1
>               }
>               \notes \context Voice = alto {
>                       r1
>               }
>       >
> }
> ---end sample-------
> 
> 
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