Re: partcombine discards quarter rests, why?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Aaron;

  Your example, of course, only contains one measure, for partcombine.

  However, I have most of 32 bars of these, and of those that have
identical chord durations, I have used 's2.' in the lower voice and
placed all the chords in the upper voice.  Obviously, I can not have
chords containing notes of different duration without using two or
more voices, so I am using partcombine.  Do I need to do this '\once
\partcombineApart' action for every measure that has this pattern,
individually?  I've tried using \partcombineApart for merging the
entire pair of bass voices, and that fails.

Thanks,
Ken

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 4:04 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Aaron;
>
>   This looks like a solution to the problem.  I missed this in the
> Learning, Notation and Snippets documentation.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 3:57 PM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-09-05 3:29 pm, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> > >   I'm using \partcombine to merge two bass lines, one is a dotted half
> > > note and the other bass one is a quarter rest and a half note.  The
> > > upper voice has the quarter rest.  The quarter rest is NOT engraved.
> > > The lower voice, having the dotted half note,is a fifth lower so there
> > > is no collision, or shouldn't be.
> >
> > Probably need to use \partcombineApart.  Consider:
> >
> > %%%%
> > \version "2.20.0"
> >
> > {
> >    \time 3/4
> >    \clef bass
> >    \partcombine
> >    { r4 e2 }
> >    { \once \partcombineApart a,2. }
> > }
> > %%%%
> >
> >
> > -- Aaron Hill
> >