musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Automatically exclude measure numbers on multi-measure rests when range is shown

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Since Aug 11, 2026.

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Description

Your idea

Whenever there are multi-measure rests, MuseScore 4 should automatically remove measure numbers where there are also multi-measure rests, as opposed to making the user do it manually for dozens of parts.

Problem to be solved

Whenever I am preparing parts with multi-measure rests, they include the measure number in addition to the multi-measure rest. If I leave it as is, it looks sloppy from an engraving point of view. This would allow for cleaner and more effective engraving.

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In other notation softwares, this is done automatically, so I don't encounter it on other platforms.

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