Re: Merging Rests in Single Staff with more than one 'voice'

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "James Lowe" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 5:52 PM
Subject: Merging Rests in Single Staff with more than one 'voice'


> Hello,
>
> I don't often use multiple voices in a single staff, so am a bit
> unfamiliar and am still finding my way.
>
> However I cannot easily see how I can take two 'voices' each from a single
> source such that when they are combined on a single staff the rests that
> both voices share are only printed once.
>
> For example
>
>
> \musicSourceOne = { a4 b c d | R1*4 | a4 r b r2 }
> \musicSourceTwo = { f4 r f r | R1*4 | f4 f g r2 }
>
> << \musicSourceOne // \musicSourceTwo >>
>
> Is about as basic as it gets.
>
> However in measures two and three both the Multimeasure rest and the r2
> are printed for each voice.
>
> I looked for a merge-rest type function and the LSR but couldn't see an
> easy way to do this without more complex editing.
>
> Did I miss something or am I going to have to make 'skips' in one voice
> and manually position the r2 so it sits on the correct line 'as if' it
> were only printed once in the other?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> >
> James


I do this quite a bit, and I always use explicitly instantiated voices, and 
turn voiceOne and voiceTwo on and off (with oneVoice) as needed.  I use 
skips when there is really only one voice.  You can do what others show with 
skips and explicitly placed rests, or you could override the rest/MMR rest 
with something like:

\override MultiMeasureRest #'staff-position = #0
\override Voice.Rest #'staff-position = #-0.1

HTH

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Phil Holmes