Making a multi measure rest shorter

[Steven Weber]

I’ve found lots of various ways to make a multi measure rest longer, but I’d like to make one shorter.  I’m trying to typeset a piece with a cadenza, and the standard \cadenzaOn and Off have some issues I haven’t figured out how to work around yet (specifically, bar lines in the cadenza keep showing up in the parts, and I just want the standard single measure of rest), so I thought I’d do it manually.  Everything looks great in the score, but when I do a part, I get a gigantic MMR.  I tried modifying the X-extent of the MMR, but that only seems to affect the “cadenza” text applied to the bar.

 

Any clever ways of persuading LilyPond to make a MMR bar shorter instead of longer?

 

Thanks!

 

--Steven

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