Re: common rests between two voices in one staff

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:35:34 Klaus Zimmermann wrote:
> I am just doing some SATB pieces and I wonder if there is a way
> to share common rests between the two voices of one staff.
> 
> The default behaviour for something like the following is that there
> are two rests generated, one typeset above the other.
> 
> I know of the possibility to use s instead of r in one of the voices,
> but consider this more to be a workaround, then a solution because it
> makes voice extracts a little uncomfortable.

In that case, can't you put one on top of the other by
giving them the same pitch?  If
that doesn't look right in an extracted part, you should
probably have two anyway.  If it looks ok in the parts,
problem solved.  DaveA