Re: Trouble with multi-bar rests

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Matthew Krause <address@hidden> writes:


> As the incredibly clever subject line says, I'm having trouble with
> multi-bar rests. More specifically, they don't seem to be printing
> correctly. IMHO, a multi-bar rest usually looks sort of like |=====|
> with a number above it, as is shown on the lilypond website.

You're only using rests shorter than 10 bars; they're expanded to
church style rests; by convention.

Try:

\score
 {
  \notes
   {
    \clef violin
    \key bes \major
     \time 4/4

     % don't expand short rests
     \property Score.MultiMeasureRest \override #'expand-limit = #2

    \property Score.skipBars = ##t R1*8 R1*2
    \relative c'' {
     [d8-- d->] r4 d4-^ r des4.-- c8-> r2
  % etc...
 }
 }
   \paper { }
 }

> FWIW, I'm using lilypond 1.4.3, and MikTex 2.1 on Win 95. As I write
> this, I have the sinking feeling that this is a RT{F}M sort of question,
> but...well, I have.

If you look in the automatically generated documentation under multi
measure rest, there's a hint about this:

    
http://lilypond.org/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/MultiMeasureRest.html

> btw: I'm not sure how to subscribe to this list, or even if it is a
> list, so could someone:
>     1) cc/ forward me replies
>         or, even better,

Done

>     2) give me pointers on how to subscribe.

Goto
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Greetings,
Jan.

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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