Re: Horizontal positioning of rests

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Karen Billings <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Sorry to bother you with a beginner's problem... I have been using
>> Lilypond for about a year now, and all that time I have had problems
>> with rest positioning. I've been dealing with it, but it's becoming
>> more of a problem now that trying to read multi-line scores...
>> The documentation states that rests are, by default, always centered
>> horizontally.
>
> Where does it state that?  I don't see anything like that in
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#rests>.
> Instead it states
>
>     Whole measure rests, centered in the middle of the measure, must be
>     entered as multi-measure rests.  They can be used for a single
>     measure as well as many measures and are discussed in *note Full
>     measure rests::.
>
> And the link given there explains how to enter such rests.
>
> So where in the documentation does it state that rests are, by default,
> _always_ centered horizontally (and if so, in what space are they
> purportedly centered)?

Oh, and you are using a lot of \stemUp/\stemDown commands.  Those are
usually the wrong thing to use since they affect only one aspect of
multiple voice typesetting.  For example, they won't affect the vertical
positioning of multi-measure rests, unlike \voiceOne / \voiceTwo /...
Also they don't provide adjustments in the case of notehead collisions.

-- 
David Kastrup