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Multi_measure_rest_engraver

Engraves multi-measure rests that are produced with R. Reads measurePosition and currentBarNumber to determine what number to print over the MultiMeasureRest. Reads measureLength to determine if it should use a whole rest or a breve rest to represent 1 measure

Music types accepted:

multi-measure-text-event and multi-measure-rest-event

Properties (read)

measureLength (moment)
Length of one measure in the current time signature.
measurePosition (moment)
How much of the current measure have we had. This can be set manually to create incomplete measures.
currentCommandColumn (layout object)
Grob that is X-parent to all current breakable (clef, key signature, etc.) items.
breakableSeparationItem (layout object)
The breakable items in this time step, for this staff.
restNumberThreshold (number)
If a multimeasure rest takes less than this number of measures, no number is printed.
currentBarNumber (integer)
Contains the current barnumber. This property is incremented at every bar line.
This engraver creates the following layout objects: MultiMeasureRest, MultiMeasureRestNumber and MultiMeasureRestText.

Multi_measure_rest_engraver is part of contexts: DrumVoice, GregorianTranscriptionVoice, TabVoice, VaticanaVoice and Voice

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