Re: rest merging (willing to sponsor)

[Mats Bengtsson]

Arvid Grøtting wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the category for "Coding better typography automation", my choir is willing
> to sponsor (within reason) the coding of automatic rest merging within a staff.
>
> Background:
>
> In staffs with multiple voices, common typesetting practice is to merge
> simultaneous rests of equal duration that are common to all voices.
>
> Lilypond doesn't do this automatically, and the workarounds I've seen are
> impractical (to me), mostly in that they tie me to choosing a particular staff
> layout when inputting the music.
>   

I hope you have tried the workaround described in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-06/msg00020.html

 /Mats