On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 19:36 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 15.06.2018 19:08, David Sumbler wrote: > > > > In a piece which is in 21/8 time (7 dotted crotchets) I find that > > LilyPond sets whole-bar rests as breve rests. I should like them > > to > > appear as semibreve rests, as they would if the bars were shorter. > > > > I have tried modifying the stencil using the method shown in > > NR5.5.3. > > But as it stands this is not successful, because the rest symbol > > is > > now attached to the preceding barline instead of appearing in the > > middle of the bar. > > > > How can I get semibreve rest symbols in the correct position, > > rather > > than breve rests? > \version "2.19.80" > > { > \time 21/8 > R8*21 > \override MultiMeasureRest.usable-duration-logs = #'(0) > R > }
Thank you very much for that. I had seen the usable-duration-log variable in the Internals Reference, and its default value of '(-3 -2 -1 0) . But I have no idea what these values represent. Can you enlighten me? David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user