Re: Merge_rests_engraver and dotted rest problem

[Thomas Morley]

2017-08-27 12:58 GMT+02:00 Risto Vääräniemi <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> I just discovered the new Merge_rests_engraver that should merge the
> rests of two voices. It is an improvement to the LSR snippet 336 *)
> because it now combines the whole-measure rests. However, it fails to
> merge dotted rests.
>
> There was a short discussion from November 2016 about a similar issue
> but I'm not sure if it's the same:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-11/msg00374.html
>
> I could not find an issue about this. Is this a bug and should there
> be an issue?
>
> It'd be really nice to have one system that could handle both cases.
>
> *) http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336
>
> BR,
> Risto
>
> ---
>
> \version "2.19.65"
>
> voiceA = \relative { d''8 r4. d2 }
> voiceB = \relative { fis'8 r4. g2 }
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new Staff \with { \consists #Merge_rests_engraver }
>     <<
>       \new Voice { \voiceOne \voiceA }
>       \new Voice { \voiceTwo \voiceB }
>     >>
>   >>
> }
>
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Hi Risto,

this is now Issue 5179
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5179/
with patch.

Thanks for your report,
  Harm