Re: Cryptical errormessage

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 20.18, Hans de Rijck wrote:
> Right,
>
> Thanks Daniel. I didn't need multi-measure rests in the first place, I
> needed full measure rests.
>
> I discovered that for a full measure rest a lowercase 'r' works equally
> well.
>
>             \time 5/4
>             r1*5/4
>
> gives a neat full measure rest in 5/4 time.
>
> Graham, could you please add this to the manual, so we don't need to fiddle
> with
> capital R rests when it is not necessary?

You probably want R, since it centers the rest horizontally in the bar. r1 
puts it more to the left, which is typographically incorrect.

> Apart from this, the errormessage stays cryptical. It took me more than an
> hour to pinpoint the actual problem.

Yes, this is a bug.

-- 
Erik