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An invisible rest (also called a ‘spacer rest’) can be entered
like a note with the note name s:
c4 c s c
s2 c
Spacer rests are available only in note mode and chord mode. In
other situations, for example, when entering lyrics, \skip
is used to skip a musical moment. \skip requires an
explicit duration.
<<
{
a2 \skip2 a2 a2
}
\new Lyrics {
\lyricmode {
foo2 \skip 1 bla2
}
}
>>
A spacer rest implicitly causes Staff and Voice
contexts to be created if none exist, just like notes and rests
do:
s1 s s
\skip simply skips musical time; it creates no output of
any kind.
% This is valid input, but does nothing
\skip 1 \skip1 \skip 1
Snippets: Rhythms.
Internals Reference: SkipMusic
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