2018-01-06 17:48 GMT+01:00 <lilyp...@maltemeyn.de>: > On 2018/01/04 19:48:36, benko.pal wrote: >> >> is there an example where a single measure rest looks different standing >> alone >> than one in an expanded multi-measure rest of odd measures? > > Not in Gould’s “Behind Bars”, neither in Gardner Read’s “Music > notation”. They both don’t mention compressed rests in combination with > longer measures. > > I’ve got the impression that neither LilyPond’s current behaviour nor my > suggested patch are optimal. I’ve sent this question to some major music > publishers, maybe they can help ;)
Great, I hope some of those will reply. My entirely irrelevant preferences lean towards the current behaviour; I expect it matches Bach's practice (relevant principles of mensural notation were sort of known), but I know it doesn't match modern printing. Of Werner's examples I prefer the Saint-Saëns one (do the same as for common bar lengths as 4/4 or 3/8, but mark every single full measure rest by an explicit "1") to the NBA one (I expect they avoid printing a multi-measure rest of odd length, and instead of a 7 bar rest they print a 6-bar multi-measure rest and a standalone single full measure rest; if that's really so, it would be quite a big nuisance to implement in LilyPond). p _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
