Re: Initial rests in MIDI not included?

[David Kastrup]

David Wright <lilylis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:

> On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 01:13:09 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote:
>> After replacing “ ... ” with “ c' ”, I got the expected MIDI output with
>> LilyPond 2.24.2, i.e., lots of silence and four C notes at the end.
>
> I did the same, and I attach a screenshot of audacious playing the
> file, called mid.midi. The little white blip above the Play button
> is the equaliser graph displaying the first c' at 2 min 40 sec of
> playing time. (Yawn.)
>
> I also attach a screenshot of timidity playing the same file. Notice
> the length of the file: 4 seconds; and that's how long it plays for.

That's all circumstantial evidence.  Nobody so far has actually attached
the resulting MIDI file and/or the output of

lilymidi --pretty

on it.  That would be way more informative.

-- 
David Kastrup