Re: Multi-measure rests before a new temporary staff is added

[Mike Solomon]

On Nov 5, 2013, at 3:01 AM, Steven Weber <address@hidden> wrote:

> Laziness.  The movement I'm typesetting is 600+ measures long with tons of
> time changes, and only 15 measures of that are split.  That's why LP allows
> this kind of construct in the first place, no?  Because we still don't have
> a good way to say "skip the next 500 measures, regardless of their length."
> 
> —Steven
> 

Can you create a separate variable for each section and use skip-of-length?

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns#aligning-to-cadenzas

There’s also mmrest-of-length.

Cheers,
MS