Re: full-measure rests don't seem to reserve adequate space

[Neil Puttock]

On 12 August 2010 17:34, Laura Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:

> That works.  Can anyone explain what the difference between:
>
>     \set Score.defaultBarType = ""
>
> and
>
>        \set Score.defaultBarType = "empty"
>
> is?

The former only has an empty horizontal extent, whereas the latter is
a completely empty stencil.

>  I notice the 2.13 documentation page about bar lines,
> <http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/bars>, gives
> the former as a way to allow a line break where there isn't a bar line,
> but doesn't mention the latter.  Is it deprecated? Or is it functionally
> different in some way? (Besides leading to this bug.)

It doesn't seem very useful due to the missing vertical extent, so I'd
recommend using \bar "" in all cases an invisible barline is required.
 Paradoxically \bar "empty" takes up horizontal space since the column
it's attached to isn't marked as `loose'.

Cheers,
Neil