Re: \compressMMRests, compressEmptyMeasures or \compressFullBarRests?

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Thomas,

Yes, you’re right, I missed that there is an music-map in there. So basically 
it just sets Score.skipBars once each time it encounters a MM rest in the 
argument music.

Valentin

Am Sonntag, 14. November 2021, 14:58:18 CET schrieb Thomas Morley:
> Am So., 14. Nov. 2021 um 14:15 Uhr schrieb Valentin Petzel 
<valentin@petzel.at>:
> > Hello Jacques,
> > 
> > Frescobaldi does not always know the latest Lilypond language. As far as I
> > see \compressMMRests and \comressEmptyMeasures do the same, but
> > \compressEmptyMeasures works like a toggle that needs to be unset by
> > \expandEmptyMeasures (it’s basically just a shorthand for \set
> > Score.skipBars = ##t, while \compressMMRests should compress only the
> > following Rest, so it checks if the music is a MM Rest and only then sets
> > Score.skipBars = ##t once.
> > 
> > So if you want to compress every MM Rest over a passage you use
> > \compressEmptyMeasures, if you want to compress one particular MM Rest you
> > use \compressMMRests, I guess.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Valentin
> 
> Well, not exactly.
> \compressMMRests compresses MMRs in the following music-espression,
> which may be some longer sequential music. It is _limited_ to MMRs.
> \compressEmptyMeasures compresses MMRs and other long durations until
> reverted:
> 
> m = {
>   \override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#f #t #t)
>   R1*2 R1*3 b\longa c'1*3 s1*2
>   \bar "||"
> }
> 
> { \compressMMRests \m \m }
> { \compressEmptyMeasures \m \expandEmptyMeasures \m }
> 
> \compressFullBarRests is no longer valid syntax in recent versions.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Harm

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