Re: snippet does not work anymore

[David Kastrup]

"Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi List,
>
> I've been seeing a lot snippets being identified by numbers, but I
> can't find out, where to search for that number. Reading the manual I
> stumbled upon a snippet that hast stopped working somewhere between
> versions 2.16 and 2.17.15. It is in the snippet department in
> "Rhythms" under the title of "Merging multi-measure rests in a
> polyphonic part".
>
> It actually does not work in the manual for 2.17 either, while in the
> 2.16-manual everything seemed fine. Find both links below.
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/rhythms#rhythms-merging-multi_002dmeasure-rests-in-a-polyphonic-part
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/snippets/rhythms#rhythms-merging-multi_002dmeasure-rests-in-a-polyphonic-part
>
> Is this wanted behaviour?

Yes, but the unchanged snippet is an oversight.

> Is there any workaround to merge the multi-measure-rests?

normalPos = \revert MultiMeasureRest.direction

Or just use \oneVoice anyhow.

-- 
David Kastrup