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Saturday, May 11, 2013, 10:42:49 AM, you wrote:
> 2013/5/11 Peter Toye <address@hidden>:
>> I'm trying to position whole-bar rests onto the bottom line of the staff to
>> keep them out of the way of the cues, and can't get it to work.
>>
>> I'm still a newbie, and have found out about the \rest command, but this
>> gives me two problems:
>>
>> 1) it doesn't apply to whole bar rests, so the horizontal position of the
>> rest is at the beginning of the bar rather than in the middle.
>>
>> 2) the vertical positioning seems wrong. If I use (in 2/4 time) e2\rest I
>> get a minim rest on the bottom line of the staff (as I'd expect, but don't
>> want). If I use e1*1/2\rest I get a full-bar rest on the 2nd line up, which
>> is the correct rest but one line too high. In all cases I get the error
>> message (which is probably allied to this):
>>
>>
>> c:/users/peter_2/appdata/local/temp/frescobaldi-owqqgx/tmpjehynm/Bridge3.ly:6:11:
>> warning: cannot resolve rest collision: rest direction not set
>> RestText= {
>> e2\rest}
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
>> mailto:address@hidden
>> www.ptoye.com
> Hi Peter,
> please post _every_ time a tiny example, including the used version.
> The warning likely depends on your code-set-up.
> Positioning of MultiMeasureRest can be modified with
> \override MultiMeasureRest #'staff-position = #-4