Re: Merge Rests Engraver

[Jay Anderson]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Peter Crighton
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Sorry for reviving this old conversation …
>
> \new Staff <<
>   \new Voice {
>     \voiceOne r2. r4
>   }
>   \new Voice {
>     \voiceTwo r2. r4
>   }
>>>
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Staff
>     \consists #merge-rests-engraver
>   }
> }
>
> I found that dotted rests don’t behave quite satisfyingly with this code –
> there are two dots appearing.
> How can this be fixed?

I've noticed this as well. At some point there was an enhancement to
lilypond for better dot placement that caused this. One option is to
use \override Dots #'stencil = ##f in one of the voices. Not great. Or
use the other solution (http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336). My
main complaint with it is that it doesn't handle multi-measure rests
(and at times in the past it caused segfaults--I'm not sure if this is
still true).

-----Jay