Re: vertical spacing of rests

[Thomas Morley]

2015-08-23 0:37 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:
> 2015-08-23 0:01 GMT+02:00 Peter Selinger <address@hidden>:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> this is a true newbie question. I am trying to engrave two polyphonic
>> voices on a single staff. Since the two voices have all their rests in
>> common, I only want to typeset each rest once, so I use spacer rests
>> in the second voice. Still the vertical spacing is such that all the
>> rests are put near the top of the staff. I would like them to appear
>> in their "normal" positions.
>>
>> From the manual, I know two ways to do this. Solution 1 is to enclose
>> each rest between \oneVoice and \voiceOne, forcing standard vertical
>> spacing:
>>
>>   \version "2.19.25"
>>
>>   \new Staff <<
>>     \new Voice \relative c'' {
>>       \voiceOne {
>>         \oneVoice r \voiceOne c \oneVoice r \voiceOne d
>>         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>       }
>>     }
>>     \new Voice \relative c'' {
>>       \voiceTwo {
>>         s4 a8 a8 s4 b8 b8
>>       }
>>     }
>>   >>
>>
>> Solution 2 is to specify an explicit vertical position for each rest.
>>
>>   \version "2.19.25"
>>
>>   \new Staff <<
>>     \new Voice \relative c'' {
>>       \voiceOne {
>>         b4\rest c b\rest \voiceOne d
>>         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>       }
>>     }
>>     \new Voice \relative c'' {
>>       \voiceTwo {
>>         s4 a8 a8 s4 b8 b8
>>       }
>>     }
>>   >>
>>
>> Neither solution is particularly elegant, as they both require every
>> rest to be marked up individually. Is there a global way to turn off
>> vertical spacing for rests in a context, i.e., some command whose
>> effect would be to make notes behave as with \voiceOne and rests
>> behave as with \oneVoice?
>>
>> Thanks, -- Peter
>
>
>
> Some more possibilities:
>
>   \new Staff <<
>     \new Voice \relative c'' {
>       \voiceOne {

%% Forgot: use one of those, comment the other ;)

>           %% \voiceOne sets Rest.direction to 1, revert it
>           \revert Rest.direction
>           %% specify staff-position
>           \override Rest.staff-position = #0
>         r
>         c
>         r
>         d
>       }
>     }
>     \new Voice \relative c'' {
>       \voiceTwo {
>         s4 a8 a8 s4 b8 b8
>       }
>     }
>   >>
>
> or use
> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336
> or
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user%40gnu.org/msg69645.html
> which works for MultiMeasureRests as well.
>
>
> HTH,
>   Harm