Re: Rest position in drum voice

[Janek Warchoł]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Vaylor Trucks <address@hidden> wrote:
> If I try to do the following:
>
> \version "2.14.2"
> up = \drummode {
>        <hh bd>8[ <hh ss>16 bd] <hh tomh>16[ <hh tomh> bd <hh sn>]
>        r16 hh16[ hh tomh] <hh bd>[ hh toml <hh bd>]
> }
> down = \drummode {
>        d8\rest hhp d8\rest hhp d8\rest hhp d8\rest hhp
> }
>
> in a DrumStaff, Lilypond complains that d8 is an unexpected string.  I have 
> also
> tried pedalhihat8\rest but tells me that the "\rest" is unexpected.

Looks like a bug to me, i'm forwarding this e-mail to our
bug-reporting mailing list.

> What method should I use to position rests in a drum voice?

change its offset, for example.

\override Rest #'Y-offset = #4

hope this helps,
Janek