--------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Bellows <[email protected]> > To: > Cc: lilypond-user <[email protected]> > 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
