Hi Kieren,
  

  
how do you think that this feature is more useful than \tweaking the y-offset? 
If the documentation explains how to move a rest, the officially recommended 
way should be using \tweak in my opinion. It's unclear to me what's the use 
case of the option of adding a note to a \rest (which in itself sounds like a 
contradiction). If we follow the WSIWYM paradigm, you can't possibly mean to 
put a "note-rest" somewhere. Perhaps not pointing that out or removing the 
feature altogether is better in the long run?
  

  
Martín.
  
  

  
  
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> On Sep 2, 2022 at 4:27 PM,  <Kieren MacMillan 
> (mailto:[email protected])>  wrote:
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>  Hi all, I was answering a user's question on the FB group, and noted that in 
> the docs, we suggest “To explicitly specify a rest’s vertical position, write 
> a note followed by \rest.” While this is a useful thing to know about, I 
> don't personally believe it's a best practice: it mixes content with 
> presentation, it doesn't play well with \transpose, etc. I'm not necessarily 
> suggesting that we avoid pointing out this feature. I'm just wondering if 
> anyone else agrees that we should point out the downsides, and give 
> alternative ways of accomplishing the same task? If so, I can put together 
> some draft verbiage for a discussion starting point. Cheers, Kieren.  
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