Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

[James Wilkinson]

So I finally separated the dynamics from the notes, and it works!!!!! 
But I had a couple of problems:

1)  Whenever both instruments have a rest, Lilypond stacks them 
vertically. James Bailey sent me a link to a snippet that fixes that. 
(How did he know that was going to be my next problem?) My question is, 
"Why is that a snippet? Given that merging the rests is the standard way 
to engrave them under those circumstances, could Lilypond not just do it 
and make me have to find a different snippet if that's not what I want? 
Or at just provide the merge-rests-on-positioning function and mention 
it in the docs?"

2)  In another measure the upper voice has a quarter rest followed by a 
half note on the bottom line of the staff. The lower voice has a dotted 
half rest. The problem here is that the half note in the upper voice is 
so low on the staff that it prints over the rest in the lower voice. 
These voices share a staff in the score, but not in the individual 
parts. I know I can fix this using tags, but that's labo(u)r intensive 
in the general case, and I wonder if there's a better way. I don't even 
know what the engraving convention is for this circumstance. I could 
suppress the lower voice entirely and let the stem direction identify 
the note as upper voice. Or should I move the rest down below the staff 
so it doesn't collide with the notehead? Either way, I want to do this 
only when trumpetII and trumpetIII share a staff, i.e. in a score.

thanks

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