Re: Glyph for longer MultiMeasureRest

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Morley" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 12:48 AM
Subject: Glyph for longer MultiMeasureRest


> Hi,
>
> what's the common practice of setting MultiMeasureRest with longer bars?
>
> I.e. which glyph should be used?
> LilyPond chooses different ones depending on \time.
> I naively expected that the code below would result in the same output
> for the different settings of \time.
>
> I didn't manage to find examples in my private library or online and I
> still don't have Gould.


Rests equal or longer than breves use a breve rest, and this is the second 
of your examples.  Gould agrees with this.  The longer rests appear to be 
longa rests - Gould does not mention them but it seems appropriate to me.

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Phil Holmes