Re: compressing full-bar rests

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-09-28 2:22 am, N. Andrew Walsh wrote:
> Hi Francesco,
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:20 AM Francesco Intrieri <
> francesco.intrieri.95@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew !
> >
> > Is it possible that you forgot to write \compressFullBarRests before 
> > R2*12
> > ?
>
> When I do that, I get an error about an "unrecognized escape string" 
> (even
> though it comes up in the auto-complete popup).
>
> Is there something wrong specifically with 2.21.1, that it doesn't
> recognize full-bar-rest compression?

See [1] and [2].  It's \compressEmptyMeasures now.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/4375
[2]: 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#index-length-of-multi_002dmeasure-rest


-- Aaron Hill