Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3307 in lilypond: Rest positions incorrect with non-standard line count

[lilypond]

Comment #51 on issue 3307 by address@hidden: Rest positions incorrect with  
non-standard line count
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3307

Regarding #49: it may be instructive, but not relevant for this issue as it  
is not suitable for an automated choice.  Anybody wanting to (re-)produce a  
score like this should use pitched rests in order to indicate his  
intention.  And that's already perfectly feasible.

Regarding #47: "This sounds like consensus." seems a bit of a stretch.  We  
are converging towards a solution.

Now Thomas is not the person requiring to override every single rest  
manually if he wants to change the style of their positioning.  He'll be  
able to find a programmatic solution.  But if there _are_ legitimate other  
styles (acknowledged by Gould) the question is whether we should not try to  
find a solution for overriding the defaults that does not require  
programming skills beyond that of the average typesetter, like a property  
containing extra directional shifts for duration logs.

For the current extra shift down of downward whole rests, this extra shift  
property would likely look like
`(((0 . ,DOWN) . -2))
and Thomas would likely just override it to '().  If we hardcode part of  
the positioning into such an extra property, the question becomes just  
_which_ part we want to put there.  The defaults should lead to reasonable  
results without additional tampering, but if we allow such extra rules, the  
results of explicit tampering should be predictable without having to know  
in advance what the result would be without override.

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