Re: 6/4 rests

[John Williams]

r1 is a rest of length 1 (= 4/4), but you want 6/4.

Try R4*6 for a single rest which fills the measure.



On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Aaron wrote:

> Hi all,
> I just enter a trio which has a number of time changes. When I have
> rests in 5/4 or 6/4 measures, like  measures with whole rest or combos
> that equal a whole measure lilypond reads them as one large measure and
> make the dvi also that way:
>
> 6/4
>
> r1|
> r1 |
> r1 |
> r1 |
> r1 |
> becomes 6/4 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 |
> I can get it to work by filling the measures with half rests but it
> looks most strange.
> Am I just writing a whole rest wrong?? or is this a bug.