Re: Full bar rests in multi-voiced piano scores -- question and asuggestion

[Arjan Bos]

Hi,
I normally use \oneVoice r4 \voiceOne in the first voice and s4 in the  
second voice. This makes the rest a normal (merged) rest instead of a  
rest belonging to a specific voice.

HTH,
Arjan

On 25-feb-2008, at 11:50, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> Hi David
>
> I've made a note to add something about this in the section of the  
> NR that deals with rests.  I should get to that in the next few days.
>
> Trevor D
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u
> > address@hidden Behalf Of
> > David Fedoruk
> > Sent: 25 February 2008 09:37
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> > Subject: Re: Full bar rests in multi-voiced piano
> > scores -- question and
> > asuggestion
> >
> >
> > OK, I think that's partially what I am asking
> > about. I would just
> > never have found that myself. I would have asked
> > the wrong question.
> >
> > I think that Zbynek and I might be asking the
> > same question. Language
> > is the barrier for both of us.
> >
> > Let me re-phrase my question to see if I understand this:
> >
> > Normally a half or whole rest sits on the middle
> > line. The exception
> > is where there are multiple voices on one staff.
> > There is yet another
> > exception to the exception. In piano music, even
> > though there may be
> > two voices which are resting, for clarity the two
> > rests which would
> > sit one above the other, are merged into one rest