Re: lilypond: merging rests in polyphonic staff

[Blöchl Bernhard]

I am a newbie as well.
It compiles without error message.
May be you meant
r1*4
instead of
R1*4
?


Am 01.09.2015 22:59, schrieb Martin Lejeune:
> Hi Everybody,
> here's a newbie question.
> I tried to configure "merging automatically" of rests in polyphonic
> staffs (piano) with a snipped, which I found in the manual.
> It doesn't work.
> What's the mistake, any idea?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
> PS:
>
> MY EXAMPLE:
>
>
> version "2.18.2"
> header {
>  title = "merging rests"
> }
>
> global = { time 4/4 }
> Key = { key gmajor }
>
> %% ------ Piano ------
> rhUpper = relative c''
> {
>  voiceOne
>  Key
>  R1*4
> g4 r8 g r2 |
> }
>
> rhLower = relative c' {
>  voiceTwo
>  Key
> R1*4
> b4 r8 b r2 |
> }
>
> lhUpper = relative c' {
>  voiceOne
>  Key
>  R1*4 |
>  g4 r8 g r2 |
> }
> lhLower = relative c {
>  voiceTwo
>  Key
>  R1*4|
>  d4 r8 d r2 |
> }
>
> PianoRH = {
>  clef treble
>  global
>  set Staff.midiInstrument = #"acoustic grand"
>  <<
>  new Voice = "one" rhUpper
>  new Voice = "two" rhLower
>  >>
> }
> PianoLH = {
>  clef bass
>  global
>  set Staff.midiInstrument = #"acoustic grand"
>  <<
>  new Voice = "one" lhUpper
>  new Voice = "two" lhLower
>  >>
> }
>
> piano = {
>  <<
>  set PianoStaff.instrumentName = #"Piano"
>
>  new Staff = "upper" PianoRH
>  new Staff = "lower" PianoLH
>  set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"p"
>  >>
> }
>
> score {
>
>  <<
>  new PianoStaff = "piano" piano
>  >>
>
>  layout {
>  context { Staff RemoveEmptyStaves }
>  context {
>  Score
>  override BarNumber.padding = #3
>  skipBars = ##t
>  }
>  }
> }
>
> the SNIPPET doesn't work:
>
>
> version "2.18.2"
>  new Score {
>  <<
>  new Staff <<
>  s4-markup{ LilyPond default, rests in both voices. }
>  relative c'' { c4 d e r | r2 e4 g | R1 }
>  \
>  relative c'' { c4 b a r | r a g2 | R1 }
>  >>
>  new Staff with {
>  override RestCollision.positioning-done = #merge-rests-on-positioning
>  }
>  <<
>  s4-markup{Merge rests as per standard notation practice.}
>  relative c'' { c4 d e r | r2 e4 g | R1 }
>  \
>  relative c'' { c4 b a r | r a g2 | R1 }
>  >>
>
>  }
> }
>  layout {}
>  midi {}
> }
>
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