Re: Condensing single-bar rests into a multi-measure rest

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Urs,

> I'm not sure about that because that wasn't the problem at hand.
> My problem was that I have to merge multimeasure rests that were written as 
> e.g.
> 
> R1*4 {} R1*6
> 
> The empty expression is a music function that can return a \break (-> no rest 
> merging) or an empty expression.
> The linked function is able to merge consecutive rests when they are of the 
> same type.
> 
> As I didn't look too close into the thread you linked I don't know if my 
> problem is related to yours, but I suspect it's rather something different.

My problem was

\version "2.19.15"

\new Staff \with { \compressFullBarRests }
    << { R1*8 } { \repeat unfold 8 {s1} } >>

Keith’s \mergeSkips deals with that, but (if I understand correctly) not your 
empty-expression problem.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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