Re: Repeated durations: pitches vs rests

[David Kastrup]

Flaming Hakama by Elaine <elaine@flaminghakama.com> writes:

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>> From: David Bellows <davebellows@gmail.com>
>> To:
>> Cc: lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:36:33 -0800
>> Subject: Re: Repeated durations: pitches vs rests
>> Hey Martin,
>>
>> > perhaps by giving a minimal example of the particular situation you
>> have, where you feel a “tied rest” is the best possible solution, other
>> people could give you better approaches.
>>
>> Check out the email I sent just a few minutes before yours, it goes
>> into greater detail about why I want this particular behavior. The
>> short of it is that it allows me to treat something like "4~ 16" as a
>> single duration object (like "4", "4.", "4..", "4...", etc) making it
>> easy to look it up in a table and result in Lilypond correctly
>> printing out pitches or rests. So "c4~ 16" would print a C quarter
>> note tied to a 16th note and a "r4~ 16" would print a quarter note
>> rest followed by a 16th note rest.
>>
>> Hope these two emails make it clearer why I want to do this.
>>
>> Dave
>
>
>
> I admit that I haven't been following this thread super closely,
>
> So I don't know if this will help you,
>
> but if you want a single object equivalent to r4 ~ 16,
>
> you can do r4*5/4

No, that kind of fill-in only works in MIDI and with multi-measure
rests.  For ordinary rests, you only get a single glyph which is not the
same as r4 r16 .

-- 
David Kastrup