Re: invisible rest that takes no horizontal space

[Peter Van Kranenburg]

On 6/15/10 10:05 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Richie,
>
> > > \skip and s consume score time, but both print some horizontal space.
> > > How can I insert an invisible rest that does not take horizontal space?
> > > I searched the manuals and snippet repository, but no clue...
>
> Use
>
>    r4*0
>
> You may have to put
>
>    \once \override Rest #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0)
>
> or
>
>    \once \override Rest #'extra-spacing-width = #'(+inf.0 . -inf.0)
>
> to eliminate any space.

Thank you. That triggered the right solution. r4*0 does not work. The 
rest collides with the following note. But, s4*0 works for me. And that 
is exactly what I need. I have around 1000 melodies in which partial 
measures were solved by inserting invisible rests (s) instead of using 
\partial. With this solution it is relatively easy to write a script to 
add *0 to all those invisible rests in order to get visually satisfying 
scores.

Thanks again!

Peter