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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user