Re: Style for Editorial Rests

Tina Petzel <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:51:21 +0200

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Hello Gabriel,

> When I engrave choral music, I often add editorial early releases.
> 
> What are best practices for indicating which rests in a LilyPond score are
> editorial?
> 
> Some options or ideas:
> 
> 
>    1. Brackets around rests (or parentheses); see this thread
>    <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2023-04/msg00246.html>
>    2. Raise the rests that are editorial to a higher vertical
> position; see 2.2.1
>    Rests
>    <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.27/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#rests>
>    3. Change the appearance of the rest glyph itself (e.g., lighter grey
>    color, or semi-transparent)
>    4. Do nothing within the score itself; simply indicate which rests are
>    editorial in footnotes or endnotes only

how about doing something like this?

Cheers,
Tina

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