Re: docs about Rest vertical position

[Martín Rincón Botero]

Hi Kieren,

how do you think that this feature is more useful than \tweaking the y-offset? If the documentation explains how to move a rest, the officially recommended way should be using \tweak in my opinion. It's unclear to me what's the use case of the option of adding a note to a \rest (which in itself sounds like a contradiction). If we follow the WSIWYM paradigm, you can't possibly mean to put a "note-rest" somewhere. Perhaps not pointing that out or removing the feature altogether is better in the long run?

Martín.

On Sep 2, 2022 at 4:27 PM, <Kieren MacMillan> wrote:

Hi all,

I was answering a user's question on the FB group, and noted that in the docs, we suggest

    “To explicitly specify a rest’s vertical position, write a note followed by \rest.”

While this is a useful thing to know about, I don't personally believe it's a best practice: it mixes content with presentation, it doesn't play well with \transpose, etc.

I'm not necessarily suggesting that we avoid pointing out this feature. I'm just wondering if anyone else agrees that we should point out the downsides, and give alternative ways of accomplishing the same task? If so, I can put together some draft verbiage for a discussion starting point.

Cheers,
Kieren.