Re: partcombine does not print rests

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hello Giles;

  Thank you very much for the suggestion to use \partcombineApart and
\partcombineAutomatic.

  It works great!

  I really must have totally missed this in the documentation.

  I will also try using voices explicitly so increase my Lilypond
knowledge/experience as that was what I was going to try next anyway.

Thanks,
Ken

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 4:23 PM Gilles Thibault <gillesth@free.fr> wrote:
>
>
> >   Do I have to abandon partcombine and use the
> >
> > << {} \\ {} >>
> >
> > construct to obtain what I want?
> >
>
> You can insert a \partcombineApart in the beginning of lh_one and
> restore the default behaviour m25 with a \partcombineAutomatic, when
> there are no more rests.
>
> lh_one = \relative f {
>    \global
>    \clef bass
>    \partcombineApart   % <- here
>    r4 c'2 c4         | % m1
>    ...
>    r4 bf2 bf4        | % m24
>    \partcombineAutomatic % <- and here
>    c,4 g'2 bf4       | % m25
>    ...
>
> --
> Gilles