Re: merging simultaneous rests from two voices

[Trevor Daniels]

The easiest way is to position the rests by writing a note followed by 
\rest.  This allows you to position both rests in the same place.  See Rests 
in the manual.

Trevor D

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wilbert Berendsen" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:13 AM
Subject: merging simultaneous rests from two voices


> Hi,
>
> in choir music with two voices on a staff, I want to merge rests if both
> voices have the same rest-value at the same time.
>
> I know that I can use \oneVoice r r \voiceOne in the upper voice and skips 
> in
> the other voice, but I want to use the same voice data also on separate
> staffs. I could manage that with tags, but that clutters the voices.
>
> So I'm trying to write a scheme macro that:
> - just inserts a rest if the voice is in \oneVoice mode,
> - inserts '\oneVoice r \voiceOne' if the voice is in \voiceOne mode,
> - or inserts 's' if the voice is in \voiceTwo mode
>
> My question: how do I determine from within scheme which mode the voice is 
> in?
> I guess that I should read the 'direction property from some object, but 
> from
> which?
>
> Related question: isn't there a simpler way to just merge rests if they 
> occur
> in both voices? Something like:
> \override Staff.NoteColumn #'merge-rests = ##t
> That should merge rests on the Staff level if all voices have rests of the
> same duration. I would be willing to write code for such a function, but I
> would not know where to start in the C++ code...
>
> best regards,
> Wilbert Berendsen
>
>
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