Re: completing a bar automatically with rests

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear David,
> I'm always astonished what can be done with scheme and lilypond!
> But I think this snippet (which You must have been written quite fast)
> is not 100% perfect.
> For example
> \makerests 4/4 c4 
> should produce c4 r4 r2 

That's what I meant using "unit of completion".
Write \makerests 1/1 c4 then.

> and 
> \makerests 6/8 { c4. } 
> should produce
> c4. r4 r8

More likely c4. r4. and indeed, this does not work for dotted units of
completion.  With \makerests 3/4 { c4. } you will get c4. r8 r4 which
fits worse into 6/8 than c4. r8 r r does.

> In case of 6/8 the base moment I think is (at least in most cases a
> dotted quarter, not a eigth note). Filling up bars with rests isn't
> maybee as trivial as I thought.

-- 
David Kastrup