Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi David, > >> You did not address the scripts attached to multimeasure rests. > > Not sure what you mean here — other than the "A" and the "B" (both of > which I addressed in my modified snippet), what scripts were there in > your original snippet?
You attached them to rests different from the original rests. >> When combining multiple multimeasure rests, you may end up with fewer >> rests than you started with (which is sort of the point), and with >> different ranges. > > Yes. And…? Which means that you attach corresponding scripts to different locations as before. >> That means that you don't have similar positions to apply the scripts >> to, and you might have more scripts than multimeasure rests anyway. > > I believe both my example and my rule handle these situations without > trouble. Then we are obviously talking about different things. >> What if a multimeasure rest is completely overlayed by material >> in the same voice? Not print it at all? > > Here again is my single rule: > > Compress all contiguous blocks of MMRs uninterrupted by other > notate-able items (e.g., "material", "scripts", regular rests, etc.). > > This rule, as I interpret it, is capable of handling everything > brought up in your response. I don't see that you even address scripts _on_ a multimeasure rest. Your reasoning becomes circular. > Perhaps equivalently (for 99% of my purposes) would be this rule: > > Simultaneous skip events should be ignored when compressing MMRs. > > Is that easier to understand and/or implement? Use \skip rather than s. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
