Merge matching rests
As an experiment involving a few recent threads, I am posting a score. I created this test score with like rests next to each other. I've never used the merge function. When I try how I think it should be used. nothing happens. I select a measure in the violin 2 part, right click and select staff properties, check Merge matching rests, Apply, OK. and nothing.
I would expect two quarter rests next to each other would become a half rest. But maybe that's not what the tool does.
Please give it a shot and if it works for you, it will confirm what I have feared all along. That I should stick to pencil and paper.
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I thought it merged matching rests vertically across voices? So that if you have, say, an eighth note rest in Voice 1 and an eighth note rest in Voice 2 it will move them both so that they overlap and it looks like you've turned them into one rest?
Umm...
![rests.png]( "rests.png")
Look at this picture:
it's the picture from here:
https://musescore.org/en/node/353870#comment-1204704
Your test score violin 2 has only a single voice.
Use 'Merge matching rests' to:
"Collapse rests of the same duration, at the same position but different voices, into just one."
(from MS3 handbook)
I just want everyone to notice what I did here. I had a problem, I posted a score, and quickly resolved the issue. Rather than dragging it out over 80 or 90 posts.
For myself, I seldom write in voices. What occurs to me is why this function is in the staff/parts properties. Rather than measure properties. But no mater. Thanks for the MU3 manual reference. Although I stopped using MU3 last year. There is nothing that I can find in the MU4 manual. No matter. As I said this was just an illustration.
In reply to I just want everyone to… by bobjp
It's in the 4 manual:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/staffpart-properties
From an editing point I agree that a per-measure function makes sense but from an entering music from scratch point of view I can see how setting the whole staff up that way make sense.
In reply to It's in the 4 manual: https:… by underquark
Thanks for the link. For me, finding things in the v4 manual can still be a challenge. On my old computer I had the v3 manual downloaded so that I could open it in Adobe and search for things Very quickly. Interestingly enough, I see that the merge function can be set to work as you write or after you are done. I'll probably leave it turned on because I just might have a need for it someday. Although it would be nice to merge rests as in my original score.
In reply to I just want everyone to… by bobjp
You wrote:
![staff_properties.png]( "staff_properties.png")
What occurs to me is why this function is in the staff/parts properties.
Because all the settings therein apply to an individual staff as a whole. Any option you enable in this dialog - merge matching rests, invisible staff lines, show barlines, etc - applies to the entire staff.
In reply to You wrote: What occurs to me… by Jm6stringer
Yes, and I asked that question because I was thinking too small. My initial experiments delt with only one measure that had rests to be merged. Since then I created a score that had three instruments. I created three measures with two voices and matching rests. Then copied the measures to the other two staves. The tool works for the one staff I ran it on. Obviously anyone who uses the tool knows this.
I also discovered that if I right click on a measure and select "Measure properties, then close the window, that measure is selected for the whole score. Yes, just one of the ways to do that. Then right click on one staff at a time in the blue selection box, and run the tool to work on all the needed staves in the score.
Nothing new to anyone who uses the tool. New to me as I don't write voices hardly at all.
Just thought I'd put this out there.
In reply to Yes, and I asked that… by bobjp
Obviously anyone who uses the tool knows this.
I'm not so sure about that. You were involved in Musescorer R.L.F.'s "recent threads" in which he was confounded by the tool's behavior. One memorable statement: "Also, after being shut down for 3 days, when I started everything new and fresh the 'merge' box was still checked!" ... :-)
In reply to Obviously anyone who uses… by Jm6stringer
I hope he figures it out. I don't think it has has anything to do with the length of the score. Rather the complexity of the parts. He is hoping that someone else will try the tool. But it won't be the same. We could tell a lot, even from a few pages of the "corrected" score.