Peter Selinger wrote > your code snippet does not work correctly if some of the rests are > dotted (see attached for the output). It's a bit of a mystery to me > why this happens.
Hi Peter, hmmm... I didn't think of this. It's no mystery, it's the Dot_column_engraver who makes sure that both dots are visible: %---------------------------------------- \version "2.19.25" centerRests = { \override Rest.staff-position = #0 } \new Staff << \new Voice \relative c'' { \voiceOne \centerRests r c r d | r2. e4 d2. e4 } \new Voice \relative c'' { \voiceTwo \centerRests r4 a8 a8 r4 b8 b8 | r2. c4 c2. a4 } >> %---------------------------------------- Turning it off completely would result in a mess. Unfortunately, I don't know a quick way to prevent this. In one of the voices, you could set dot-count to zero, but this would affect notes and rests in the same way. A quick and dirty approach would be to remove the Rest_engraver from the second voice: %---------------------------------------- \version "2.19.25" centerRests = { \override Rest.staff-position = #0 } \new Staff << \new Voice \relative c'' { \voiceOne \centerRests r c r d | r2. e4 d2. e4 } \new Voice \with {\remove "Rest_engraver"} \relative c'' { \voiceTwo %\centerRests r4 a8 a8 r4 b8 b8 | r2. c4 c2. a4 } >> %---------------------------------------- If you look for an automatic solution that detects if both voices have the same rests, go for the merge-rests-engraver already mentioned by Harm. AFAIK the most recent version is here: https://github.com/openlilylib/openlilylib/tree/master/editorial-tools/merge-rests-engraver Cheers, Klaus -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/vertical-spacing-of-rests-tp179947p179971.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