Re: add stems to rests under a beam?

[Klaus Blum]

N. Andrew Walsh wrote
> I'd prefer to keep the position of the rests as close to
> unchanged (ie where they would otherwise appear, were they not under a
> beam) as I can. Obviously this will force all the stems to be considerably
> longer than normal, but I'd rather that than have the rests suddenly drop
> towards the bottom of the staff.

Hi Andrew, 

you could use an invisible notehead and put the rest in a new voice:

% ----------------------------------------------------
\relative c' {
  \override Stem.stemlet-length = #0.75
  c2~ c4 c8[
  <<
    \hide d'16
    \new Voice
    b16\rest
  >>
  c,16] | c4
}
% ----------------------------------------------------

However, there is a problem: the rest is not centered below the stemlet. 
You could use \shiftOff, but this will produce an error message about
noteheads and rests on the same stem:

% ----------------------------------------------------
\relative c' {
  \override Stem.stemlet-length = #0.75
  c2~ c4 c8[
  <<
    \hide d'16
    \new Voice
    \shiftOff
    b16\rest
  >>
  c,16] | c4
}
% ----------------------------------------------------

There's some way to supress that with "expect-warning"... 
I also tried \omit NoteHead, but that doesn't help.

But maybe that's a start...

Cheers, 
Klaus






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