Re: Issue 2300 in lilypond: Patch: do not tinker with the position of a pitched rest

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Updates:
        Status: Accepted
        Owner: address@hidden

Comment #10 on issue 2300 by address@hidden: Patch: do not tinker with the  
position of a pitched rest
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2300

Totally reasonable.  It is conceivable that the ledger line breve rest is  
there for the purpose of being able to properly reproduce a minority of  
engravings.  But without more definite information, I would keep things  
just as you did.  It might also be that a square blob outside of the system  
is less recognizable without ledger lines than a long block, and this was  
the motivation.  And it may be that the duration of a longa rest is such  
that you would never employ it in multi-voice situations, so there is no  
point in a glyph.

Whatever the reason: if nobody digs up more definite references, my vote is  
on merging this patch.  Its behavior seems reasonable to me.