Re: rests position in otherwise empty measure.txt

[Bill Mooney]

My thanks to you and to Mats Bengtsson and others for your help on 
this... :)

The solutions offered have given me the music appearance my client wants 
which is ultimately the result we ever want - the customer is always 
right... (I suppose)

I am coming to grips with LP slowly and am finding it great for notating 
music which is straight-forward, but the tweaks to achieve a pleasing 
result in complex music are elusive, to me at least, as I don't have a 
programing background and only a fairly rudimentary knowledge of music 
theory and notation best-practice. However, by riding on the shoulders 
of those who have made the Snippets and Templates available I have 
managed to put together some reasonably pleasing results since launching 
myself into the pond a few weeks ago.

Regards
Bill

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Bill
>
> I don't really know the answer to your question, whether the LP default 
> positioning for whole measure rests in polyphonic music follows standard 
> typesetting practice, although I know it was always the intention to do 
> so. So I'm copying this to the -user list to prompt comment from those 
> more knowledgeable than I about such things.
>
> Trevor
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Mooney" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 11:33 PM
> Subject: Re: rests position in otherwise empty measure.txt
>
>
> > Hi Trevor,
> > Your solution, and one other slightly different one I found in an 
> > earlier post, fixes the positioning 'problem' for whole measure rests 
> > but doesn't affect the smaller rests (obviously!). I suppose what I'm 
> > asking is, when one has two voices on a single staff is it standard 
> > notation practice for the WMRs to be positioned the way LP defaults.
> > My 'client' doesn't like the LP way, unfortunately, hence my attempts 
> > at a general workaround.
> >
> > Thank you for your help
> > Bill