Re: how to create the same appearance of a full-measure rest in spite of time signature?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hello again,

  An update to my earlier question.  I'm engraving a piece now that
uses 5/4 and 6/4 time signatures.  I have a full measure rest for one
of each time signatures.  I'd like to have a single rest note for
those measures, not "r1 r4" and not "r1 r2".  How to do that?

  What about "9/8"? Etc...things that don't have a denominator of 4.

Thanks,
Ken

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 7:27 PM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Well, that was stupid of me :-(
> >
> > I replaced, in the current engraving, "r2." with "R2.".
> >
> > It works as I had desired.
>
> LilyPond still needs you to specify the duration, yes, even though the
> appearance is almost always the same (there are exceptions like 3/1
> meter where using a semibreve rest would be too confusing).
>
> > Sorry for the noise.
>
> Happens.
>
> --
> David Kastrup