RE: Full bar rests in single-staff polyphony

[Daniel Rosen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith OHara [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:01 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Full bar rests in single-staff polyphony
> 
> Daniel Rosen <drosen27 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > "So far, there's no automatic support in LilyPond to avoid collisions
> > between multi-measure rests and other objects."
> >
> > Is this still the case?
> 
> Yes.

I've submitted a bug report for this 
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs/36634).

> > If so, is there a reason that this feature can't be added?
> 
> I think that part of reason full-measure rests don't avoid other objects is 
> that
> their spacing rules are different than those for anything else inside the 
> staff.
> They go in the middle of the measure, without regard to rhythm.  They
> would need to be placed somewhat like text markup.
> 
> { \time 3/4 << {
>    b'16 a' g' d' e'4 e''
>  } \\ {
>    \once\override MultiMeasureRest #'staff-position = #-7
>    R2.
>  } >> }
> 

Are individual overrides the only way I can fix it in the meantime? That will 
be rather tedious.

DR