Re: 6/4 rests

[Russ Ross]

r1. (or r4*6) will give you a dotted whole rest, R1. (or R4*6) will
give you a whole measure rest (no dot) and both will be the right
duration.

- Russ


On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:07:54PM -0700, John Williams wrote:
> r1 is a rest of length 1 (= 4/4), but you want 6/4.
> 
> Try R4*6 for a single rest which fills the measure.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Aaron wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I just enter a trio which has a number of time changes. When I have
> > rests in 5/4 or 6/4 measures, like  measures with whole rest or combos
> > that equal a whole measure lilypond reads them as one large measure and
> > make the dvi also that way:
> >
> > 6/4
> >
> > r1|
> > r1 |
> > r1 |
> > r1 |
> > r1 |
> > becomes 6/4 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 |
> > I can get it to work by filling the measures with half rests but it
> > looks most strange.
> > Am I just writing a whole rest wrong?? or is this a bug.
> 
> 
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