Re: hide issue

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno gio 9 apr 2020 alle 09:28, address@hidden ha scritto:
> Hi,
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> \relative c' { c d \hide r4. f8 }
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> I expect that the hide command will hide the dot for r4.
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> Regards,
> PS: Now, I use s4 instead.

s (spacer rest) is what you should use in this case.

\hide is a shorthand to make only the NoteHead grob transparent, as 
explained here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/visibility-of-objects#making-objects-transparent

If you want to hide every grob related to a note (stem, flag, dots, 
...), you should use \hideNotes:

\relative c' { c d \once \hideNotes r4. f8 }

See 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#hidden-notes