Re: Simple question about rests

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 03:31:41 address@hidden wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > > 
> > > I was reading the lilypond example page
> > > 
> > > http://lilypond.org/stable/examples.html
> > > 
> > > and looking at the first page of the first example (Petite Ouverture ...)
> > > it seems that a rest can have an incorrect vertical position. E.g. in bars
> > > 12 and 13 the second quaver (eighth note) rest is in line with the upper
> > > note (the A) instead of the lower pair of notes. The rest should be placed
> > > out of the way of the A because the A _exists_ at the same time as the
> > > rest, but it seems lilypond won't do this unless the other note (the A in
> > > this example) actually _starts_ at the same time as the rest.
> > 
> > I agree that this would be a nice feature. However, handling collisions
> > between different voices is a very intricate matter and there will
> > always be a number of special cases that cannot be handled
> > automatically.
> > 
> > > [This is slightly surprising because it means that rests are being 
> > > treated 
> > > differently from notes.]
> > 
> > Of course they are, since rests don't have a prescribed vertical
> > position, in contrast to notes.
> > 
> > 
> > > I looked for discussion of this problem, but I couldn't find any in the
> > > support mailing lists

It's been a while, but I long ago suggested that the best place to
put a rest by default, assuming that there is more than one part,
is on the same line or space as the note following in that part,
because a rest cues that following note.  DaveA