Just curious, why wouldn't this be a bug? I've never seen stems with the same notehead twice before :) Since most rhythm comping arrangements would just provide the chord names and the rhythm, and if you already have your chords in a variable to generate the names just reuse them on rhythmic staff to show the rhythm...
Thanks, Rick Graham Percival-2 wrote: > > Thanks for the report! This is a feature request, not a bug, but it's > worth adding: > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=185 > > Cheers, > - Graham > > Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: >> The RhythmicStaff is not squashing out all the noteheads like it should >> be. >> It is common to want to re-use the notes of a chord progression as either >> a >> rhythmic staff or a notes staff (to avoid having to write more music just >> for the rhythmic staff). When you use chords on RhythmicStaff it is not >> squashing out the noteheads. IOW RhythmicStaff should only recognize >> durations and not care about notes. Here is sample code that >> demonstrates >> the bug: >> >> \new RhythmicStaff { >> \time 4/4 >> <c e g>2 >> <c e g>2 >> <c e g>2 >> <c e g>4 >> <c e g>4 >> } >> >> \new RhythmicStaff { >> \time 4/4 >> <c>2 >> <e>2 >> <g>2 >> <c>4 >> <e>4 >> } >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > bug-lilypond mailing list > bug-lilypond@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/RhythmicStaff-not-squasing-out-all-the-noteheads-tf2871439.html#a8041608 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond