Re: partcombine discards quarter rests, why?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Aaron;

  This looks like a solution to the problem.  I missed this in the
Learning, Notation and Snippets documentation.

Thanks,
Ken

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 3:57 PM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-09-05 3:29 pm, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> >   I'm using \partcombine to merge two bass lines, one is a dotted half
> > note and the other bass one is a quarter rest and a half note.  The
> > upper voice has the quarter rest.  The quarter rest is NOT engraved.
> > The lower voice, having the dotted half note,is a fifth lower so there
> > is no collision, or shouldn't be.
>
> Probably need to use \partcombineApart.  Consider:
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.20.0"
>
> {
>    \time 3/4
>    \clef bass
>    \partcombine
>    { r4 e2 }
>    { \once \partcombineApart a,2. }
> }
> %%%%
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill
>