Re: cadenza at beginning of song

2009-10-16 Thread chip
got it to work, now one more issue that I haven't found the answer to in the docs - I cannot get the empy measure's wider than the default (whatever that may be). I can add all the spacer notes I want, but the measure never gets any wider. What do I have to do to make an empty measure wider? Wh

Re: cadenza at beginning of song

2009-10-16 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/10/16 chip : > I am working on a song that has a free time cadenza at the beginning, but am > having a problem with the other instruments rests for the duration of the > cadenza. Put the cadenza in a separate identifier (i.e., cadenza = \relative c'' { ... } ), then you can use mmrest-of-leng

cadenza at beginning of song

2009-10-16 Thread chip
I am working on a song that has a free time cadenza at the beginning, but am having a problem with the other instruments rests for the duration of the cadenza. Also, the notes of the cadenza run to the right edge of the page and disappear, the notes don't wrap down to create another staff. tha