Re: three voices and rest

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven, 12/11/2010 alle 10.41 +0100, Francisco Vila ha scritto:
> 2010/11/12 Federico Bruni <address@hidden>:
> 
> > The problem is that the rest of voiceFour is printed under the second
> > voice and not between first and second, as I would like it to be.
> > Is it a normal behaviour?
> > I'm doing something wrong?
> 
> I don't know any of the answers, but in the meantime you could g4\rest
> instead of r4, in:
> 
> > fourth = \relative c' {
> >  r4 <a c>  q
> > }
> 

That works fine, thanks.

I believe the best way is setting up a default position for rests in
this voice and then using 'note'/rest in case of collisions with other
voices (or repeating the override using \once and a different value). 

For example:

fourth = \relative c' {
  \override Rest #'staff-position = #-2
  r4  <a c>  q |
  s2. |
  r4  <a c>  q |
  % \once \override Rest #'staff-position = #-1 % alternative to a4\rest
  a4\rest  <a c>  q |
}


Or maybe there's some drawback I'm not aware of?

Thanks to Mats' post here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-06/msg00387.html 

Cheers,
Federico