Re: shared rests between voice parts?

[Arvid Grøtting]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> Robinson P. Tryon writes:
>
>> I'm typesetting a book of college songs and came across some parts
>> where two voices are on a single staff and share rests.
>
> That sounds like a job for \partcombine, see input/test/hymn.ly

Won't that give a single stem when the voices share a note head?  And
won't rests that exist in one voice only, be dropped?

Traditionally in SATB (and TTBB) notated on two staffs, common rests
are shared, while stems go S:up/A:down/T:up/B:down even when
occationally singing in unison for a short while.

So I guess we could use a specific rest-combiner, to:

- merge common rests (or typeset them at staff level)

- keep voice-specific rests at voice-level and shifted up/down, as
  before.

This would be especially useful when typesetting SATB or TTBB music in
alternative 2-staff and 4-staff versions; this is not possible while
merging rests with the current workaround of r-s in one voice and s-es
in the other.

That said, I personally don't think doubled, voice-level rests look
all that bad, so I sometimes just keep them that way[1].  It's just
not traditional.

(Oh, and isn't R2.\fermata supposed to work in 2.2.1?)


[1] example: <http://regina.uio.no/~arvidg/dunkom.pdf>
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Arvid