On Thursday 02 February 2006 12.51, liang seng wrote: > Hi, I am using Lilypond 2.7.27 for Windows 98. I've found something > peculiar about the horizontal placement of multi measure rests in the > presence or absence of time signatures. Here is an example: > \version "2.7.27" > \score{ > \new StaffGroup << > > \new Staff { \key a \major R1 \break R1 } > \new Staff { R1 R1 } >> > } > (good & minimal example, btw) > If you take a look at the 2nd bar, the horizontal placement of the multi > measure rests between the two staves are slightly different. I think this > is caused by the presence of the time signature on the first staff.
The reason is the key signature: in absence of a time signature, the key signature affects the alignment of notes in the first bar by default. I think this behaviour can be changed with: \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'average-spacing-wishes = ##f -- Erik Sandberg Maintainer of the Lilypond bug CVS archive, http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/ http://lilypond.org/bugs/v2.7/ _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond