Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Peter Danemo" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:44 PM
Subject: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests


> Hello!
>
> I'm a pretty unexperienced Lilypond user. I'm working on the layout of a
> small piece. It's basically a hymn written using a piano staff. If both
> voices have a rest on the first beat and start on the second beat I get
> two quarter note rests. I need it to be just one. I learned how to make a
> rest invisible, but that doesn't change the position for the remaining 
> rest.
>
> Is there a easy way of doing this?

Use \voiceOne and \voiceTwo when the parts have separate notes, and 
\oneVoice and a spacer rest when you want a single centred rest.

> Furthermore, the piece ends with just 3 bars on the last line. But i fills
> upp the whole page anyway. Is there a way of getting the 3 bars to take up
> the same as the bars above? Making a 4th invisible bar!?

Look up "ragged" in the Notation Reference.

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Phil Holmes