Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi David,
>
>> I have quite a few orchestra parts where multimeasure rest streaks of
>> several lengths are _not_ conflated.  Basically, each such rest stands
>> for a recognizable unit.
>
> I’ll look at Gould to see what her recommendations are.
>
> In any case, whether or not a best practice is known, the snippet I
> sent in response to Alex’s reply clearly shows a case where Lily is
> not behaving “as expected”.
>
>> What you need here in my opinion is something else: a command that just
>> passes time (using s or R or something else) until a specified event
>> occurs initiated from another voice, and then resumes.
>
> ?
>
> I don’t understand how that would apply to or solve this issue/problem
> — please give a [possibly pseudo-code] example.

Well, you would not count.  Instead you'd say something like

\R-until \atMark 8
or
\R-until \atmeasure 80

I am afraid that "2 before mark G" would be too ambitious since one
can't rewind the time.  But "x after" should be possible.

-- 
David Kastrup