[This comment](https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/3208/#0c3c/2ac7)
by Benkő Pál asks whether breve/longa rests in TabStaff should go from line to
line.
Gould doesn’t mention tablature notation at all but she states (quoted from the
german translation)
> Die doppelte Pause erstreckt sich über einen ganzen Zwischenraum und hat
die gleiche oder (häufiger) die halbe Länge einer ganzen oder halben Pause
which translates to
> The breve rest extends across a whole space and has the same or (more
> commonly) half the width of a whole or half rest.
This would imply that we could not use the breve/longa/maxima rest glyphs from
the font whenever staff-space is changed but would have to draw rectangles.
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** [issues:#5258] Vertical breve rest position in TabStaff/RhythmicStaff**
**Status:** Started
**Created:** Sat Jan 13, 2018 04:47 PM UTC by Malte Meyn
**Last Updated:** Sun Jan 14, 2018 05:53 PM UTC
**Owner:** Malte Meyn
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According to Gould breve rests should hang from a one line staff
(RhythmicStaff) as semibreve rests do. Also, there is a comment in
multi-measure-rest.cc saying
```
// Staff position is somewhat icky regarding its definition for
// compatibility reasons. It is intended to be the baseline of
// a breve rest. However, when the staff space is more than
// single space (like with tablature), it looks better if all
// rests are actually hanging. So staff position, in reality,
// is the semi-breve position - 2. Everything else is
// calculated from there.
```
This confirms what Gould writes. But the code applies only to MMRs with a
measure-count > 1.
That leads to inconsistent behaviour: MultiMeasureRest breve glyphs hang, but
not for single measures. Rest breve glyphs don’t hang. Instead, all breve rests
should hang.
```
\version "2.19.80"
music = {
\compressFullBarRests
r1 R1 R\breve
\time 4/2
r\breve R\breve R\longa
\time 8/2
r\longa R\longa
}
\new TabStaff \with { \tabFullNotation } \music
\new RhythmicStaff \music
\new Staff \music
```
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