Re: Whole-time rest and 3/4 time in 2.8.1

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:16, Graham Percival wrote:
> 
> On 8-Apr-06, at 8:13 PM, Tomas Valusek wrote:
> 
> >> You want to use
> >> R2.
> >> R1 produces 4 beats, just like r1.  R2. produces 3 beats.
> >> I'll clarify this in the docs.
> >
> > But the point of whole-bar rest is that composer/copyist doesn't 
need 
> > to care about time signature when using them - at least, that's what 
I 
> > explain to my pupils why it is possible to see the whole rest in 
bars 
> > containing less than 4 quarter beats.
> 
> Yes, but the whole point of the duration "1" in LilyPond is that it 
> occupies four quarter notes.  :)
> 
> In all seriousness, having a \wholeBarRest command would involve a 
> nontrivial amount of extra programming.  As long as the documentation 
> is clear as to what R1 vs. R2. does, I think it's ok.  BTW, when lily 
> 2.8.2 comes out, please look at the docs and let me know if it's clear 
> (my updates won't be on the web until then).  I'm quite open to 
> changing the docs, but you'll need to tell me exactly what to change.

Wouldn't 

threst = \times 4/3{R2.}

do it?  daveA

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