What I mean is that in some music the end of the 'free rhythm' section may need to be synchronised with the other staves. For instance, at the end of a florid passage for a soloist in free rhythm, the last few notes may need to coincide with an accompaniment. The \cadenza keywords don't seem to handle this. Would you like an example or have I explained it well enough now?
Christian Masser's idea works OK. It just need a bit of counting but that's no great issue.
I thought I was being stupid in not being able to use \cadenza, but it seems I wasn't.
>> Thanks. That solves the vocal line, but it doesn't seem to solve the
>> synchronisation issue with the accompaniment, which is rather
>> necessary in a song!
> To quote: "1) How do I get the desired result,
> which is one bar with the
> first 2 crotchets synchronised with the bass, and the rest
> unsynchronised?"
> Can you explain what you mean by
> "unsynchronised"? Stuff just doesn't
> add up. Your vocal line ends with a full bar
> rest, your accompagniment
> ends with a half rest. You want stuff to have synchronisation but be
> unsynchronised.
> You can insert \skip 8*14 (for example) in the bass but I have no idea
> whatsoever what you actually want.