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Option to turn off default behaviour of using "breve" (double whole) rests in time signatures longer than 4/4. #22129

Open wizofaus opened 8 months ago

wizofaus commented 8 months ago

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I'm working on a piece in 13/8 and for some reason MuseScore thinks it should show "breve" (double whole) rests for whole measure rests. This looks completely out of place and, as far as I can determine, is not in line with what modern publishers actually do (despite what Gould may say!). See discussion here: https://musescore.org/en/node/323707 Currently there appears to be no option to turn off this behaviour or easily trigger MS to show the expected whole (semi-breve) rest symbol instead.

(NB: it does seem the reason it's showing these rest types is because internally some measures are marked as having as many as 26 actual beats. But even in 26/8 I wouldn't expect this rest symbol to be used. And certainly not for, say 11/4, or even 9/4 really).

Problem to be solved

Unsuitable rest symbols being shown

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XiaoMigros commented 7 months ago

See also #21612 I also remember somewhere the 'override visual duration' option for rests was asked...

wizofaus commented 7 months ago

FWIW, I can see a case for being able to control this on a per-measure (= per-rest) basis. While personally I'd never use breve/longa/etc. rest types in my own scores, it's not impossible I might feel it were appropriate when typesetting another composer's music, and I have seen scores that only use such rests in very limited scenarios (even, in some cases, only for multi-measure rests!)