Re: Bass and chords

[Thomas Morley]

2012/11/7 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Will do, if noone comes up with a better solution or finds a drawback.
>
> We have markup commands \note and \note-by-number.  It seems to me that
> it would likely be most straightforward to provide the same for \rest
> and possibly \rest-by-number and use that as part of the solution.

Seems you don't like the context-modifications. :)

What should \rest-by-number do, what \musicglyph can't?
Proper output of R1*x?
More?

And how to use it?
Perhaps:
\once \set ChordNames.noChordSymbol = \markup \rest-by-number
<reading/processing duration and style>
?

-Harm