Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

[Michael Rivers]

I just engraved a piece for which the standard solutions given in this thread
worked especially badly. There were many 8th notes alternating with 8th
rests (which should be merged by Lilypond, but can't be automatically), so
switching back and forth between a polyphonic structure and \oneVoice was
not workable. I used b8\rest for centering the rests in the treble clef and
d8\rest for the bass, but then the singer wanted me to transpose the whole
score down a step, and I had to manually rewrite all the 8th rests in the
score which got transposed too. Not fun.

Rests in multiple voices not merging by default or having a setting to merge
them is one of the two most common frustrations I encounter with Lilypond
(the staves in a grand staff failing to widen to allow for cross-staff beams
is the other).



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