Re: A question for the wise with brains or those who just used it for a while and know :)

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Darkijah,

I’m not sure if I understand you correctly (please include a small example 
demonstrating your problem in such cases, because that makes understanding you 
problem and thus helping you much easier).

As far as I understand it, your problem is that a half note or rest takes more 
space than a quarter note. That is in fact intended behaviour, as the note is 
also twice as long.

If you want a half note that actually is a quarter note looking like a half 
note you can scale the duration by 1/2 by
r2*1/2

Also the half note rest producing two measures in a 1/4 time is expected. 
Basically a half note or half rest has the duration of two measures in that 
case, thus you get the „empty” measure.

You’re talking about timeless music at the end. Note that using 1/4 measures 
is not the preferred way to do this in Lilypond (though it might be in other 
software). For short timeless passages you can use \cadenzaOn (and \cadenzaOff 
to deactivate). If your whole score is timeless it is advisable to remove the 
whole functionality of bars and Timing from Lilypond.

See the appended example.
Please note that using cadenzaOn will basically force Lilypond to remain 
within the same measure, so to get breaks you need to insert \bar "" at the 
places where a break should be possible.

Cheers,
Valentin

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