Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

[Daniel Johnson]

Bruce Bertrand wrote:
> I'm trying to change the vertical position of rests in a polyphonic staff.
> I found this thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-01/msg00005.html
>
> which says to use " \override Rest #'staff-position = #x " with in the
> voice
> context.  That works quite well when using a non-zero number.  But I want
> to
> make the rests for voiceTwo appear centered on the middle line, and using
> "0"
> does not move the rest at all (ie. it appears where a voiceTwo rest would
> normally appear).
>
> Is there something I'm missing?

You can take one of two courses of action here:
1. Update to a more recent version of Lilypond (this bug was fixed a
couple months ago)
-OR-
2. \override Rest #'staff-position = #0.0001