Re: question/suggestion MultiMeasureRests

[Mats Bengtsson]

According to a notation hand book I have in my book shelf
("Noter" by B. Tyboni, in Swedish), the switch should be
already when going from 8 to 9 measures. I haven't compared
to any printed music, though, but since violin parts have
much fewer rests than trombones, I guess you have a much
better selection of examples.

  /Mats

David Bobroff wrote:

> By default, LilyPond prints "church" rests for multimeasure rests of one
> to ten measures rest.  From eleven measures up, it switches to this style:
>
> |====== 11 ======|
>
> I find that when I have a 10 measure rest I want to alter it which is
> easily done.  I always change it because the church rests look odd to me
> for more than nine bars of rest.  I concluded that they look odd to me
> because I don't ever see them in engraved music.  To test this idea I
> went through some of my collected orchestral parts.  Trombone parts are
> chock-full of rests!  In only one instance did I see a 10 measure church
> rest.  It was in an Edition Peters printing of "Die Schöpfung".  In all
> other cases the church rests were used for up to 9 and then starting
> with 10 the heavy horizontal bar was used.  The exception to this was
> French music which used the heavy horizontal bar for everything more
> than one.
>
> My question:
>
> Why is the default behavior to use church rests for 10 bars rest?
>
> My suggestion:
>
> Change the default behavior to print church rests for up to 9 bars rest.
>
> -David
>
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