Re: How to join rests?

[Werner]

> Yes this is the latest version of Jay's Merge Rests Engraver, combining
> features of LSR #336 and #468.
> 
> I made a request to have this included directly into LilyPond.
> This is tacked as issue #1228.
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1228

Thank you for the hints.
The snippet
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=336
helps me for now. 

I'm not advanced enough to understand, how to use the engravers. But it would 
be good, to have commands directly in lilypond.

\override RestCollision #'positioning-done = #merge-rests-on-positioning 
is good.

Something shorter like 
mergeSimultanRests = ##f
mergeSimultanRests = ##t
(like autoBeaming = ##f and others)
and/or 
\simultanRestsMerge 
\simultanRestsEachVoice
(like dynamicUp and others)
would be great.

Greetings 

Werner