Thanks for your replies. That's awesome. I think I will also define a command \hideRests, so that I don't have to manually convert all the rests to spacer rests - this might be handy if I later decide to use one staff per voice.
centerRests = { \override Rest.staff-position = #0 } hideRests = { \override Rest.transparent = ##t } \new Staff << \new Voice \relative c'' { \voiceOne \centerRests r4 c r d } \new Voice \relative c'' { \voiceTwo \hideRests r4 a8 a8 r4 b8 b8 } >> By the way, properties such as staff-position are not included in the index of the Notation Manual (though they do appear in the index of the Learning Manual). I had to search the whole document to find these properties in Appendix A.17. Would it make sense to include them in the index? -- Peter Klaus Blum wrote: > > Peter Selinger wrote > > Is there a global way to turn off > > vertical spacing for rests in a context, i.e., some command whose > > effect would be to make notes behave as with \voiceOne and rests > > behave as with \oneVoice? > > Hi Peter, > > yes, there is: > \override Rest.staff-position = #0 > but you have to apply it once for every voice. > > Cheers, > Klaus > > > %------------------------------------------------- > \version "2.19.25" > > centerRests = { > \override Rest.staff-position = #0 > } > > \new Staff << > \new Voice > \relative c'' { > \voiceOne % you don't need a pair of braces here > \centerRests > r c r d > } > \new Voice > \relative c'' { > \voiceTwo > \centerRests > r4 a8 a8 r4 b8 b8 > } > >> > %------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/vertical-spacing-of-rests-tp179947p179950.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user