Re: Change stem direction based on position of note in staff?

[Stefano Antonelli]

On Sun, 2024-09-01 at 10:26 +0100, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 30/08/2024 17:53, Stefano Antonelli wrote:
> > However in example 3, there are some added rests for the hands and
> > feet
> > representation, that aren't in the other two representations.  And
> > that
> > is the challenge.  Converting from one rhythmic representation to
> > another when notes are added or removed from a voice.
> 
> I'm not a drummer, and haven't set drum music (yet - I set Brass Band
> music and they have drumkits), but I'm wondering whether it might
> work
> to use spacers?
> 
> Can you use spacers instead of rests? So you'd put them in (I
> presume)
> the Crash. You might have to use tags so you can explicitly tell that
> part to use either a spacer or a rest.

I presume that what you refer to as spacers, I refer to as silent
rests.  Meaning s4 rather than r4.

Manually adding a tag to add a rest, silent or not, isn't really going
to help with a general solution to this problem.  At least not the way
I envision it.