Re: Full measure rests in 3/4 time

[Tomas Valusek]

Hello,

> There really is no mysetery here.  r2. gives you a dotted half-note 
> rest.  In 3/4 time, R2. gives you a full-measure rest.  Use whichever 
> type of rest you want to see in your score.
>
> Please note that there is a difference between 4 beats of rest (r1) and 
> a whole-measure rest ( R +beats_in_your_bar )

I find i bit of bureaucracy in Lilypond. If this tool is primarily for 
musicians, than it should respect musical way of using symbols. If it's for 
computer freaks, than it can obey programmers' way of thinking.

Why I say this? Whole-bar rest is a shortcut, used in multi-part scores to indicate a rest for a 
whole measure REGARDLESS of beats contained in specific measures. So I think that requiring 
duration for R symbol is anoyance for musicians. I should be able to say R and lilypond should use 
proper length for such rest. Instead, I'm forced to remember a specific time signature, since R is 
just a name of symbol, not a function returning proper duration. And if Lilypond's philosophy is 
"do automatically all what you can do", than R should never require additional length 
modifier, since it should always say "it's a whole-measure rest, and Lilypond knows well, how 
many beats this measure contains".

It should be even possible to say e.g. 4R, where two measures are 2/4 and 
another two 3/4 - time-signature engraver is score-wide, not staff wide by 
default.

Tomas Valusek