Hi Ed,
The man page refers to skips as "invisible rests". Is that not the
case?
It's probably just a semantic argument, but in my opinion, NO.
[The docs should probably be changed to eliminate confusion.]
A rest is a graphic object which appears on a staff to indicate the
voice in question should remain silent while a certain amount of time
passes.
A skip is not a graphic object, it doesn't appear on a staff (or
anywhere, for that matter), and it provides no direction to any voice
about anything -- it is simply a technical tool to control Lilypond.
In other words, a rest has a score-based (musical) meaning, and a
skip doesn't.
Furthermore, as you have seen, filling empty measures with "s1"
versus "R1" will result in very different scores when you compile.
Best wishes,
Kieren.
_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
