Re: Fwd: Middle voices and rests

[Nick Payne]

On 14/05/12 07:31, David B. Stocker wrote:

Hi group,

Any guess on how to make LilyPond automatically shift rests the way it shifts notes in middle voices to avoid collisions with other notes?

It doesn't happen automatically. I find myself having to do this frequently enough in polyphonic single stave guitar scores that I use a music function:

rShift = #(define-music-function (parser location move) (number?) #{
    \once \override Voice.Rest #'X-offset = #move

and then use it like:

\rShift #0.3 b4\rest

I also have situations where the default size of the rest is too large to fit between the notes in the outer voices, and there I use:

rSize = #(define-music-function (parser location size) (number?) #{
    \once \override Voice.Rest  #'font-size = #size
#})

\rSize #-1 b4\rest