I have now finished setting the saxophone quartet, which is the first substantial multi-instrument piece I have attempted with Lilypond.
I am very pleased with the result, and I am now at the stage of tweaking the appearance of the output. Searching in the Lilypond documentation, one problem I have not been able to find a solution to is this: in the piece there are a few places where one instrument is silent for several consecutive bars. In the score these obviously appear as single bar rests, but in the relevant instrumental part I should like them to appear as a "multi-measure rest". The problem may be that I have used \parallelMusic for the whole score: this seems an obvious way of doing things for a piece such as this with a small number of instruments. It has certainly been far easier to find my way around the file than in my previous Lilypond efforts (e.g. a piece for flute and piano), even though they were a lot shorter than this one. But looking at the documentation, I can only see multi-measure rests appearing if they are entered as multi-measure quantities - e.g. R1*6. If this is true, then the only way I can see to get the result I want, would be to deconstruct my whole file and reassemble it as 4 separate sections, one for each instrument. This in itself will be a tedious chore, but it also means the resulting file(s) will be much less easily navigable when I make further additions and modifications. Is there any way to get the result I want whilst still keeping the \parallelMusic layout? David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
