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Just a simple example. Could be the start of a minimal music thing.
violin = \relative c'' {
c16 d e f] g [a b c]
c,16 [d\rest e f] g [a b c]
c,16 [d e\rest f] g [a b c]
c,16 [d e f\rest ] g [a b c]
c,16 [d e f] g\rest [a b c]
c,16 [d e f] g [a\rest b c]
c,16 [d e f] g [a b\rest c]
c,16 [d e f] g [a b c]
\bar "|."
}
Vriendelijke groet, Eef
When composing; arranging it happens often that a note is skipped (read: turned into a ‘rest’). Think about note
patterns what repeat, with small variations. Then the note/rest does the job perfectly. The pattern is kept. The rest is exactly on the place the note would have been.
Would you mind putting a short example of what you mean? Also in which musical context? Jazz perhaps?
My two cents:
Tweaking the position is fine to avoid a collision or to keep a rest about the same “viewing” line then the notes of a phrase
But, or better And:
When composing; arranging it happens often that a note is skipped (read: turned into a ‘rest’). Think about note patterns what repeat, with small variations. Then the note/rest does the job perfectly. The pattern is kept. The rest is exactly on
the place the note would have been.
In fact a very well musical solution.
Met vriendelijke groet, Eef
H.E. Weenink MBA
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.
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.
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