Re: Learn from Finale 2014 (seriously)?

[Karl Hammar]

Urs Liska:
> this has just appeared:
> http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/quick-peeks-at-finale-2014-consolidate-rests/
> 
> and I think what they describe as inferior behaviour in Finale 2012 is 
> (nearly) exactly what we have to do (OK, we don't have to manually drag 
> rests to an appropriate place but let LilyPond do this with \oneVoice.
> 
> But I often have to do things like
> 
> <<
>    {
>      \voiceOne d'4 \oneVoice r \voiceOne d'
>    }
>    \new Voice {
>      \voiceTwo d4 s d
>    }
> >>
> 
> which really is equivalent to the initial example of the Finale post.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea how one could improve this situation for LilyPond?

You have to be more specific, what is it you want ?

If you want to merge rests, have a look at:

http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/CamilleSaintSa%C3%ABns/oratorio_de_noel/04_air.ly

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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