Re: Shared Rests

[David Nalesnik]

Dan,


> Am 22. August 2015 05:19:43 MESZ, schrieb Dan Eble <address@hidden>:
> >Can anyone offer general architectural advice for adding the option for
> >parts on the same staff to share rests when possible?  I mean without
> >using \partcombine.  I’d like to focus on multi-measure rests first.
> >Roughly, I guess there should be something that watches for notes and
> >rests in all voices, and if there are only multi-measure rests in the
> >current measure, eliminate all but one MultiMeasureRest grob (or
> >eliminate them all and create a new one?).  Would that be a new kind of
> >engraver placed at staff level that works independent of the
> >multi-measure rest engraver, which remains at voice level?  Are there
> >engravers that work similarly that I should study?
> >
>

There is an engraver in circulation which merges rests: see
http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user%40gnu.org/msg69645.html.

(There's also a snippet here: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336.  It
doesn't handle MultiMeasureRest, though.)

HTH,
David