Custom duration measure will not show a whole rest
The instructions for forcing a custom duration measure into a whole rest do not work
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In the top to stables there are whole measure rests: they are centered.
In reply to In the top to stables there… by Jojo-Schmitz
If that is a whole measure rest, then your documentation is wrong, and I'd like to request a way to force it to be a normal whole measure rest. Cadenzas don't actually change the beat count of a measure, so ways to fake it are valuable.
In reply to If that is a whole measure… by Laurelin
Then fake them with tuplets rather than a custom duration. Also plays back as expected then
"The instructions for forcing a custom duration measure into a whole rest do not work"
On the contrary, Ctrl+Shift+Del does work. But a whole-measure rest looks different for any custom measure which has a longer duration:
![Mu4_displaying_rest_durations.jpg]( "Mu4_displaying_rest_durations.jpg")
In reply to "The instructions for… by DanielR
I belatedly checked in Elaine Gould's notation handbook Behind Bars, and here is the short section about whole-bar rests:
![Gould_Whole-bar_rests.png]( "Gould_Whole-bar_rests.png")
Glossary:
Bar (GB) = Measure (US)
Whole-bar rest (GB) = Whole-measure rest (US)
Crotchet (GB) = Quarter note (US)
Semibreve (GB) = Whole note (US)
Breve (GB) = Double whole note (US)