Re: Repeated durations: pitches vs rests

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 22/02/2021 à 23:51, David Kastrup a écrit :

> Flaming Hakama by Elaine <elaine@flaminghakama.com> writes:
>
> > I admit that I haven't been following this thread super closely,
> >
> > So I don't know if this will help you,
> >
> > but if you want a single object equivalent to r4 ~ 16,
> >
> > you can do r4*5/4
> No, that kind of fill-in only works in MIDI and with multi-measure
> rests.  For ordinary rests, you only get a single glyph which is not the
> same as r4 r16 .


Hm, I would guess that is what was meant by "single object".

I was about to suggest the Completion_rest_engraver, but it
appears that it only works for rests across measures and
doesn't help with that kind of rhythm.

Regards,
Jean