Re: mmrest-oflength not generating MMR 2.15.24

[Paul Scott]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 02:39:55PM -0800, -Eluze wrote:
> 
> 
> Paul Scott-4 wrote:
> > 
> > On 01/15/2012 02:08 PM, -Eluze wrote:
> >>
> >> Paul Scott-4 wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Can someone tell me why skip-of-length work in this example
> >>> but mmrest-of-length doesn't?
> >>>
> >>> cnotes = \relative c'' { \cadenzaOn c8[ d e f g] \cadenzaOff }
> >>> snotes = { $(skip-of-length cnotes) }
> >>> mnotes = { $(mmrest-of-length cnotes) }
> >>>
> >>> \score{
> >>>    <<
> >>>      \new Staff \cnotes
> >>>      \new Staff \mnotes
> >>>      \new Staff \snotes
> >>>    >>
> >>> }
> >>>
> >> - why do you specify \cadenzaOn and -off?
> >> - how would you write a multi measure rest corresponding to 5 eighths in
> >> the
> >> other staff?
> > 
> > Because this is debugging an attempt to write a cadenza in a score.  I 
> > only discovered skip-of-length and mmrest-of-length when trying to align 
> > parts to a cadenza and now I believe I need to use them for this 
> > purpose.  This is a minimal example of something which doesn't seem to 
> > work as documented.  Five eighth notes is a small subset of the actual 
> > cadenza.
> > 
> > Thanks for replying,
> > 
> I agree it's minimal but maybe too short!
> 
> adding notes to fill a full messure (which is 4/4 in this case) enables the
> full measure rest to be written.
> 
> why \cadenzaOn is disturbing I cannot say, but try the code below:

> 
> cnotes = \relative c'' { c8[ d e f g] c[ c c ] } 
> snotes = { $(skip-of-length cnotes) } 
> mnotes = { $(mmrest-of-length cnotes) } 
> 
> \score{ 
>   << 
>     \new Staff \cnotes 
>     \new Staff \mnotes
>     \new Staff \snotes 
>   >> 
> }
> 

That works but my actual cadenza is longer than 8 eighth notes.  When I add 
another eighth note and put the \cadenza On and Off back in the MMR disappears 
again.  Even putting 9/8 for that example doesn't help.

I also get these errors:

programming error: Multi_measure_rest::get_rods (): I am not spanned!
continuing, cross fingers
programming error: Object is not a markup. 
continuing, cross fingers
This object should be a markup: ()
programming error: Multi_measure_rest::get_rods (): I am not spanned!
continuing, cross fingers


I think my original question has validity and may even lead to a bug report.

Thanks,

Paul