Re: Rest space in between fugue's voices

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi George,

> Currently, I am transcribing Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in a minor (BWV 904), 
> but I am dealing with a rest collision between the fugue voices on measure 
> 69. Specifically, on the 4th beat I have not found a way to give distance 
> between the a' from the alto and the 16th rest from the tenor.

How about:

tenor = \relative d' {
  \override NoteHead.color = #red \override Stem.color = #red \override 
Beam.color = #red \override Rest.color = #red
  \change Staff = "up"
  \voiceFour
  d8 e f d a'4 r8 d, |
  bes'4 r8 d, a'4 \tweak staff-position -4 \tweak X-offset #1 r16 g f e   |
  d e f d 
}

In general, I tend to trust Lilypond’s \voiceX commands and tweak anything that 
doesn’t work as hoped/expected, rather than manually overriding stem and tie 
directions and so on. (Obviously, when the tenor returns to the lower staff, 
you’d want to issue a \voiceOne command!)

Hope that helps,
Kieren.
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