Re: Q: Whole rest woe

[Mats Bengtsson]

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> Feature requests:
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> (1.)  Pitches for rests an option in the syntax.
> (2.)  Suppress heads.
> (3.)  Suppressed head notes are rests to midi but they must have pitch
> on account of their flags or beams and/or stems. To put it another
> way, (1.) and (2.) interact.


You can do this today, see the example below. The macros for
pitched rests are of course a bit clumsy since they don't
support relative octaves or different clefs. I didn't include
the actual rest in the macro definitions since that would fix
also the duration of the rest.

   /Mats

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rg=\property Voice.Rest \set #'staff-position = #-1
rf=\property Voice.Rest \set #'staff-position = #-1.5
re=\property Voice.Rest \set #'staff-position = #-2
rd=\property Voice.Rest \set #'staff-position = #-2.5
% and so on ...
defaultrestpos = \property Voice.Rest \revert #'staff-position 

SuppressHead = \property Thread.NoteHead \override #'style =
#'transparent
EndSuppressHead = \property Thread.NoteHead \override #'style =
#'default

\score{
  \notes\relative c'{
    c d e f | 
    r8 \rg r \rf r \re r \rd  r \defaultrestpos r g f |
    g g g g g \SuppressHead g g \EndSuppressHead g |
  }
}