Issue 1228 in lilypond: \override RestCollision #'positioning-done = #merge-rests-on-positioning

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Status: Accepted
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Labels: Type-Enhancement

New issue 1228 by RalphBugList: \override RestCollision #'positioning-done  
= #merge-rests-on-positioning
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1228

On 11 June 2010 16:27, Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden> wrote:

Could you implement the possibility:
 \override RestCollision #'positioning-done = #merge-rests-on-positioning
described in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336
_directly_ into LilyPond?
So we would not have to define  merge-rests-on-positioning  ourselves,
each time we want to use this function.
This function _is useful_, as shown by the several messages asking for
this on lilypond-user:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=Merging+rests+&submit=Search!&idxname=lilypond-user
That would also be great if you could overpass the limitations, i.e.
 – ability to handle more than two voices ;
> – handle multi-measure/whole-measure rests.

Maybe the following discussion could be helpful in a certain way:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-02/msg00452.html