Re: converting rests with specified vertical position to common rests

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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On Wednesday 14 January 2009 22:36:37 David Rogers wrote:
> On 2009-01-14 at 23:50, Arno Rog wrote:
> >In the process of converting an musicXML file (from capella) to
> > lilypond all the rests are converted to rests with a specifed
> > vertical position. Is there a way to convert them to 'ordinary'
> > rests without ruining the score (due to the use of \relative music
> > notation)?
> >I'd like to stick to using \relative notation.
>
> The short answer is: Yes. Staying with \relative will certainly
> not be a problem.
>
> However, I think it will be a lot of work to find each and every
> rest and simplify the way it's written. The vertical positioning
> is done by adding some extra code to each one of them - simply
> removing that extra code from each rest should give what you
> want and cause no side-effects.

Actually, this is not true. The positioned rests are written e.g. as
 g4 e\rest c4
if you simply replce the e\rest by r4, i.e.
  g4 r c
then you'll get a c in the wrong octave (it should rather be c, in this 
case!).

To be honest, I don't know of any easy way to replace the positioned 
rests by ordinary rests without messing the relative setiing up...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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