Re: vertically center rests in polyphonic voices

[Jin Choi]

Thanks. This works if I match all the rests I want centered in both voices. 
William Rehwinkel’s suggestion of using a pitched rest also works, but is 
slightly more difficult to deal with in \relative mode as it may affect the 
notes following.

> On Aug 10, 2023, at 10:15 PM, David Wright <lilylis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Thu 10 Aug 2023 at 20:27:39 (-0400), Jin Choi wrote:
>> I’m transcribing some piano music where it is helpful to use \voiceOne and 
>> \voiceTwo for some extended polyphonic sections. When I come across shared 
>> rests, I’ve been putting in rests in one voice and invisible rests in the 
>> other voice. But rests in voices are vertically offset from the center 
>> depending on which voice is in use:
>> 
>> \version "2.24.1"
>> 
>> upper = \relative c'' {
>>  \new Voice {
>>    \voiceOne c4 r4 c4 r4
>>  }
>>  \new Voice {
>>    \voiceTwo c4 r4 c4 r4
>>  }
>> }
>> \new Staff = "upper" \upper
>> 
>> 
>> I can fix that by exiting the voice context and going to \oneVoice for the 
>> rests, but is there an easier way just to have the rest vertically centered?
> 
> Take a look at:
> 
>  https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/merging-rests
> 
> which is something I haven't yet tried out. I assume this supercedes
> snippet 336 and corrected versions thereof.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
>