Re: Making a multi measure rest shorter

[Steven Weber]

On 7/25/16, 3:26 PM, "Thomas Morley" <address@hidden> wrote:

    2016-07-25 22:45 GMT+02:00 Steven Weber <address@hidden>:
    > I’ve found lots of various ways to make a multi measure rest longer, but 
I’d
    > like to make one shorter.  I’m trying to typeset a piece with a cadenza, 
and
    > the standard \cadenzaOn and Off have some issues I haven’t figured out how
    > to work around yet (specifically, bar lines in the cadenza keep showing up
    > in the parts, and I just want the standard single measure of rest), so I
    > thought I’d do it manually.  Everything looks great in the score, but 
when I
    > do a part, I get a gigantic MMR.  I tried modifying the X-extent of the 
MMR,
    > but that only seems to affect the “cadenza” text applied to the bar.
    >
    >
    >
    > Any clever ways of persuading LilyPond to make a MMR bar shorter instead 
of
    > longer?
  
    I think it would be far better to use cadenza, anyway, how about:
    
    \version "2.19.45"
    
    \score {
        \new Staff {
            \time 4/4
            \clef bass
    
            \repeat unfold 5 { c4 d e f | g a b c' }
            \newSpacingSection
            \once \omit Staff.TimeSignature
            \override Score.SpacingSpanner.spacing-increment = #0
            \time 75/4
            \tweak usable-duration-logs #'(0)
            R1*75/4*1 ^\fermataMarkup _\markup { "Cadenza" }
            \once \omit Staff.TimeSignature
            \newSpacingSection
            \revert Score.SpacingSpanner.spacing-increment
            \time 4/4
            \repeat unfold 5 { c4 d e f | g a b c' }
        }
    }
    
    Cheers,
      Harm
    
That worked like a charm!  I agree that using \cadenzaOn and Off would be the 
best approach, so I’ve attached a new version that does just that.  What I wind 
up with is a mess (a MMR with a bar of notes typeset on top of it).  What am I 
doing wrong?

--Steven

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