PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) - Manual (Page 181)

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To help live musicians to read your scores, the placement of rests can be as critical as the placement
of notes . Notion provides a number of features that help you display rests to enhance readability .
These visual features benefit musicians reading your score and do not affect playback . The playback
marker will continue through incomplete or blank measures when you play or perform .
Enter Bar Rests Quickly
A whole rest from the Entry Palette (or with a keyboard shortcut of W) is intended for common meters .
With other meters, there is a special keyboard shortcut you can press to access a full bar rest .
1 . Ensure you are in Edit mode .
2 . Press the Z key .
» A whole rest appears on your Music Cursor .
3 . Position your Music Cursor anywhere in a measure you want to add the whole-measure rest .
4 . Either click your mouse or press Enter .
◙ Examples of the same bar rest in measures with various meters.
This feature is useful if you have a few measures involved . If you happen to have more
than a few measures to fill, the next feature offers greater time savings .
Automatically Fill Measures
For readability, empty or partially notated measures should be filled to their meter’s count with rest marks . On
an orchestral score, this can be time-consuming . With Notion you can fill a large number of these measures
(or even all measures in a score) quickly: partially notated measures will finish the meter in the correct count
of rests and, just like the previous procedure, any empty measure receives a whole rest, no matter what the
meter . And any measure containing a correct count of notes and rests will simply be skipped over .
1 . Ensure you are in Edit mode .
2 . Inform Notion which measures are involved by highlighting the ones you want to fill in one of the following ways:
> Highlight contiguous measures .
> Highlight the entire part (staff) throughout the score by clicking this staff anywhere, then either:
8 Go to the Menu bar and select Edit > Select Part, or
8 Press the keyboard shortcut of Windows: Shift + Ctrl + A ; Mac: Shift +  + A
> Highlight the entire score by going to the Menu bar and selecting Edit > Select All – or pressing
Windows:
Ctrl + A; Mac:  + A .
3 . Right-click anywhere in the highlighted area .
» A context menu appears .
4 . Select Tools > Fill With Rests .
Multi-measure rests (parts view only)
When there are multiple consecutive measure rests for a player, it is standard practice to combine them into a single rest .
See Chapter 3.10 for more information
Fill Measures with Rests