I just engraved a piece for which the standard solutions given in this thread worked especially badly. There were many 8th notes alternating with 8th rests (which should be merged by Lilypond, but can't be automatically), so switching back and forth between a polyphonic structure and \oneVoice was not workable. I used b8\rest for centering the rests in the treble clef and d8\rest for the bass, but then the singer wanted me to transpose the whole score down a step, and I had to manually rewrite all the 8th rests in the score which got transposed too. Not fun.
Rests in multiple voices not merging by default or having a setting to merge them is one of the two most common frustrations I encounter with Lilypond (the staves in a grand staff failing to widen to allow for cross-staff beams is the other). -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Pianostaff-4-part-writing-and-rests-tp170926p171659.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user