Re: Rests vertical position problem

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Valentin,

> Le 19 mai 2020 à 10:02, Valentin Villenave <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> On 5/19/20, Jacques Menu <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In the attached example, the \voiceOne and \voiceTwo commands used for the
>> first score lead to the eigth rests in measure 2 to appear too high.
> 
> Well, it’s merely printed the way the source code’s requesting it.
> \voiceOne rests are consistently placed at the top of the staff.
> 
>> Is there a way to use some equivalent of \voiceOne and \voiceTwo
>> measure-wise in such a case, using it only in measures that have more than
>> one voice playing?
> 
> I *think* your best bet would be to take a look at the
> #Merge_rests_engravers (in scm/scheme-engravers.scm), which should be
> able to handle that sort of case (I just checked; it currently
> doesn’t). You could then \consist it into all your Staff contexts by
> default.

I’ll have a look at the Merge_rests_engravers, thanks.

> By the way, why is xml2ly \tempo markup so convoluted when you could have 
> simply
> 
>    \tempo "" 4 = 110
> 
> (plus, it would remove the need for \markup \note, whose syntax has
> recently changed.)

This dates back to four years ago, when I started working on xml2ly... Thanks 
for pointing this enhancement out!

JM