[Denemo-devel] Rests in voices: wrong position

[Nils Gey]

Hello to Toronto!

Thank you for your Denemo-Usage. Please continue to report or ask anything you 
like or dislike about Denemo.

(00:29) ( Uli_0_8_16_Win) good evening from toronto
(00:30) ( Uli_0_8_16_Win) i have a question about two voice writing on one staff
(00:30) ( Uli_0_8_16_Win) i'd like to write a rest for the "upper" voice, but 
it's written below the "lower" voice.  can this be controlled so that the rest 
actually appears with the upper voice?

I think you speak about the PDF output here.
This is the only case that matters because Denemos own representation of any 
notation-input is not the way it will appear in the final PDF. The rendering 
itself is done by Lilypond so ultimately its their job to be "intelligent" 
enough to place the rests in a way that different voices can be distinguished 
by the reader.

But about your problem: A quick test confirmed your problem. (Other way around, 
rest in the lower voice, works). This is a well known case but so far we have 
not tested if its Denemo's fault or a Lilypond bug. 

In the first case: Voices in Denemo is one of the last "big" things that need 
some major fixing in output and handling before a 1.0 release. I personally use 
them often and are regulary annoyed :)
The latter case: This is an "upstream" problem of Lilypond and hopefuly will be 
reported and fixed. If we or you find out that is it a Lilypond problem I can 
personaly send in a bug report.

So for now I sadly can only ask for your patience. If you want to speed up the 
process maybe you could provide us with the info, if you like, if Denemo puts 
out bad Lilypond-Syntax or if this is default Lilypond behaviour, and if there 
is a workaround to produce the correct output directly from within Denemo.

Thank you for your interest!

Greetings,

Nils 
http://www.denemo.org