Re: Multimeasure rests with chordnames context .. possible bug?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Jack Cooper <address@hidden>:

> I've been having a problem generating multimeasure rests within
> leadsheets, and until recently I made no serious attempt to figure
> out what was going on.  What I finally noticed is that lilypond
> doesn't generate multimeasure rests when I use the chordnames context.
> If I comment out the chordnames part of the score, lilypond correctly
> generates multimeasure rests.
>
> I haven't seen anything in the archives addressing this issue, so
> I wonder if I've been missing something obvious.  I am currently
> using version 2.11.27 under windows, although I noticed this problem
> with version 2.10.x as well.  I've attached a copy of one of the
> leadsheet files that exhibits this behaviour..

If you temporarily replace your \context ChordNames = mychords {
by
\context Staff = mychords {
you might get a clue on what the problem is.

In order for the \set Score.skipBars = ##t setting to work here, you 
need to use multimeasure rests also in the ChordNames context. For 
example, you should replace

harmonies = \chordmode {        c1 r1 r r r r r

by

harmonies = \chordmode {        c1 R1*6


   /Mats