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

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you!

On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 4:06 PM Carl Sorensen <c_sorensen@byu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>