Re: how to create the same appearance of a full-measure rest in spite of time signature?

[Carl Sorensen]

On 8/8/21, 5:01 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Kenneth Wolcott" 
<lilypond-user-bounces+carl.d.sorensen=gmail.com@gnu.org on behalf of 
kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hello again,
    
      An update to my earlier question.  I'm engraving a piece now that
    uses 5/4 and 6/4 time signatures.  I have a full measure rest for one
    of each time signatures.  I'd like to have a single rest note for
    those measures, not "r1 r4" and not "r1 r2".  How to do that?\

R1*5/4 in 5/4
R1*6/4 or R1. In 6/4

HTH,

Carl

    
      What about "9/8"? Etc...things that don't have a denominator of 4.
    
    Thanks,
    Ken
    
    On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 7:27 PM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
    >
    > Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> writes:
    >
    > > Well, that was stupid of me :-(
    > >
    > > I replaced, in the current engraving, "r2." with "R2.".
    > >
    > > It works as I had desired.
    >
    > LilyPond still needs you to specify the duration, yes, even though the
    > appearance is almost always the same (there are exceptions like 3/1
    > meter where using a semibreve rest would be too confusing).
    >
    > > Sorry for the noise.
    >
    > Happens.
    >
    > --
    > David Kastrup