Daniel Contreras <daniel.c.9...@gmail.com> writes:
> I was just curious as to what the difference is between the commands
> \compressFullBarRests and \set Score.skipBars = ##t ?
skipBars prints nothing and gives no indication about what was left.
> I arranged some salsa charts that were performed over the weekend, My
> friend who played trumpet mentioned that I had a rest that was 32 bars
> long. He told me that the rests were not written in compressed
> form.
Only full bar rests are compressed. Full bar rests are printed in the
middle of the bar (rather than at its beginning) and look like
semi-breve rests (duration 1) for most meters (exceptions are meters
like 2/1 or 4/2). Compressed rests show various forms, with the largest
ones being a large vertically centered horizontal bar with the number of
measures above.
Full-bar rests are entered with a capital R. For full-bar rests to be
compressed, they have to be entered as a _single_ rest, like R2.*16 for
16 measures of rest in a 3/4 meter. That makes it possible to have,
say, 16 measures of rest followed by 3 by writing something like
R1*16 R1*3
and have them compressed in logical sections. But it means you have to
compress your rests manually.
\compressFullBarRests is probably named a bit confusingly: LilyPond
merely refrains from uncompressing the rests then, but it does not
actively compress them.
--
David Kastrup
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