Re: Pianostaff 4-part writing and rests

[Robin Bannister]

Michael Rivers wrote:
> I just engraved a piece for which the standard solutions given in this thread
> worked especially badly. There were many 8th notes alternating with 8th
> rests (which should be merged by Lilypond, but can't be automatically), so
> switching back and forth between a polyphonic structure and \oneVoice was
> not workable.

Tedious to enter and tedious to read, but it should work.


A standard manual solution, not yet mentioned in this thread
 - defines a sequential music variable for just the shared 'r'
 - includes this as \oneVoice in parallel with the other voices
 - all these other voices have 's' where the shared rests are

Features:
 - this variable can be thought of as associated with the staff
 - it can be left untransposed while the other voices are transposed
 - that way, the positioning produced by using '\rest' is stable
 - none of the other voices has a special role regarding shared rests

You may find this somewhat tedious to enter, but it is a lot easier to 
read.



Cheers,
Robin