Re: invisible note for expressive marks

[Thomas Morley]

2016-05-29 10:24 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2016-05-29 8:49 GMT+02:00 Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden>:
>>> The spacer rest does not work but the empty chord does!
>>
>> To be complete, spacers do work here if scaled properly, although
>> empty chords are more handy, imho
>>
>> {
>>   s1*0 \p \< \repeat unfold 3 {c'4 d' e' f'} s1*0 \!
>> }
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Harm
>>
>>>
>>> So here it is a working example that in my opinion can be very useful:
>>>
>>> \version "2.19.40"
>>> {
>>>   <> \p \< \repeat unfold 3 {c' d' e' f'} <> \!
>>> }
>
> And you need to look twice to see the _other_ difference in your
> example.  If you don't write c'4 explicitly when using s1*0, you'll get
> into all kinds of trouble.  In fact, you can still get into all kinds of
> trouble:
>
> \version "2.19.40"
> {
>   <> \p \< \repeat unfold 3 {c' d' e' f'} <> \!
> }
> \addlyrics { \repeat unfold 3 { c d e f } }
>
> {
>   s1*0 \p \< \repeat unfold 3 {c'4 d' e' f'} s1*0 \!
> }
> \addlyrics { \repeat unfold 3 { c d e f } }
>
>
> Can you figure out what's going wrong with the second example?


Honestly, I've not the slightest idea ...

Cheers,
  Harm