Re: Hiding whole measure rests from conductor score

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you read the section on "Rests" in the users manual, it tells you to 
look in the section called "Multimeasure rests"
for whole measure rests, which should answer your question.

   /Mats

Quoting Dewdman42 <address@hidden>:

> I have come up with my own way to hide whole measure rests from the conductor
> score, while displaying them for the parts, but I would like to hear if
> there is a generally accepted better way of handling this, as my way feels a
> little complicated.  I'm trying to have it so that I have only definition of
> the actual note data and then the part and score are formatted differently
> from the same note data.
>
> Basically I defined a couple "macros" such as
>
>     wholeRest = {s1}
>
> Then when creating my voice data I use that macro:
>
>     myVoice = \newVoice { relative c' {| \wholeRest | c d e f | \wholeRest
> | }}
>
> When I produce the Part score for that player I would then change the
> wholeRest definition to {r1}
>
> So that works pretty well, but I am wondering if there is an easier way to
> begin with, and then also since I am going to want to have multi-measure
> rests for the parts, that brings up another question, which is how I could
> have one set of voice data that feeds both part and score, and the part
> version has a multi-measure rest, while the score version just has empty
> measures.
>
> Perhaps I need to use some kind of parallel, merged voices strategy that is
> not too complicated?
>
> Please forgive me if these are naive questions.  I am just starting out with
> Lilypond and I have been pouring through the manual for the past couple days
> trying to figure this stuff out myself, but a few things are not too
> straightforward.
>
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