Don: you wrote: > Do people object to using a whole rest symbol as a full-bar rest in 2/4 or > 3/8 time? Or is that OK since you would never have a 4-beat rest, so no > ambiguity could arise. What about a full-bar rest in 6/4 or 3/2? I do not have the authority of a musicologist; I am just a practising musician. Anything confusing in reading a score should be avoided so people tend to stick with what they are used to no matter what the rules say. I admit to have seen occasionally a whole bar rest in a 3/4 time although quite infrequently, most the time r2d. in 6/4 a rest of 4 beats is usually written as r2d r4 and the whole rest is entirely avoided. In 3/2 the whole rest is used, but never for the whole bar. Everything that is more than one bar, however, is written as \PAuse, etc. overwritten with the number of rests regardless of the beats as scor2prt does nicely. My personal style is thus to avoid rp and write the explicit durance of the whole bar rest. Christof
