-----Original Message-----
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 1:57 PM
To: Dewdman42
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Hiding whole measure rests from conductor score
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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