Expanded Use of staff-level Per-Staff AutoOnOff setting for measure numbers.

Your idea

I would like to expand the use of the Pid::SHOW_MEASURE_NUMBERS property on Staff to work with any measure number mode as follows:

• ABOVE_SYSTEM: If staves that are not the top staff have m_showMeasureNumbers set to On, then measure numbers would show on that staff.
• BELOW_SYSTEM: If staves that are not the bottom staff have m_showMeasureNumbers set to On, then measure numbers would show on that staff.
• ON_ALL_STAVES: If m_showMeasureNumbers is Off, the measure number would not be shown on that staff.
• ON_SYSTEM_OBJECT_STAVES: unchanged

In addition, I would add this setting as a popup menu on the Staff/Part properties dialog. (Or the Advanced style properties dialog.)

Problem to be solved

While I think it is nice to have a setting that ties measure number display to the display of time sigs, tempo, etc. I do not think it should be required in order to have control over which staves display measure numbers. (When you want more than just top/bottom but less than all staves.)

Furthermore, the current UI I find to be clunky and confusing and completely not obvious. Obviously, others may not feel the same way. I can elaborate if necessary.

Prior art

What I have described is basically the equivalent of how Finale does staff-selection for measure numbers. (Leaving aside some differences that are not really applicable to this request.) Finale has no concept of ON_SYSTEM_OBJECT_STAVES for measure numbers, though.

Additional context

It appears to me that the implementation of this feature request would be a trivial modification of Staff::shouldShowMeasureNumbers. (Plus a new field on the Staff/Part properties dialog.)

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