Re: Problem: multi-bar rests in SATB score

[Trevor Daniels]

mark damerell wrote Monday, August 16, 2010 6:25 PM


> Lilypond version 2.10.33: to see my problem, take the SATB 
> template
> from Appendix D4.1 and insert
>
>        \set Score.skipBars = ##t
>
> at the start of the \global  section and insert
>
> R1*7
>
> in front of each voice's notes.
>
> Instead of a 7 bar rest, I get a 1 bar rest followed
> by  a 6 bar rest,

This looks like a fault in the template.  The declaration
of the four lyrics contexts looks like:

   \new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }

It should be

   \new Lyrics = "sopranos"

The quote signs are not really significant; it is the s1
that messes up the full-measure rests.  Remove these from
all four lyric context declarations.  I'll fix the template
in the 2.13 docs.

> and these
> rests are printed twice in each staff, once for Sopranos
> and once for Altos.

The easiest fix is to use s1*7 in the second voice, although
a better fix would be to put the full-measure rests in a
single voice.  This means you have to move the \voiceOne
and \voiceTwo commands into the music definitions, after the
R1*7 and s1*7.

HTH

Trevor