Re: converting rests with specified vertical position to common rests

[David Rogers]

On 2009-01-14 at 23:50, Arno Rog wrote:

> L.S.
>
> In the process of converting an musicXML file (from capella) to lilypond all the
> rests are converted to rests with a specifed vertical position.
> Is there a way to convert them to 'ordinary' rests without ruining the score
> (due to the use of \relative music notation)?
> I'd like to stick to using \relative notation.

The short answer is: Yes. Staying with \relative will certainly 
not be a problem.

However, I think it will be a lot of work to find each and every 
rest and simplify the way it's written. The vertical positioning 
is done by adding some extra code to each one of them - simply 
removing that extra code from each rest should give what you 
want and cause no side-effects.

Ordinary rests are just r1 (for whole rest) r2 (for half rest) 
and so on.

David