Igor Engraver Manual

333 APPENDIX A
The different settings of the Empty bars pane are used in the following manner:
Default width:
This textbox determines the default width of an empty bar.
Minimum width:
This textbox determines the minimum allowed width of an empty bar.
Multibar rests, Minimum width:
This textbox determines the minimum allowed width of a multibar rest.
Mutibar rests, Displacement:
This textbox determines the default distance between a multibar rest and
its attached number.
Multibar rests, Horizontal line thickness:
This textbox determines the thickness of the horizontal line of a multibar
rest.
Multibar rests, Vertical endline thickness:
This textbox determines the thickness of the multibars’ vertical endlines
(that is, the vertical lines that enclose the multibar marking’s horizontal
line).
Multibar rests, Create multibar rests in parts:
If checked, multibar rests will be created automatically in new parts.
Multibar rests, Minimum length:
This textbox determines the minimum length of a multibar rest. If set to
0, there is no lower limit of bars that should be included in a multibar
rest.
Multibar rests, Maximum length:
This textbox determines the maximum length of a multibar rest. If set to
0, there is no upper limit of bars that should be included in a multibar
rest.
Multibar rests, Break every:
This textbox determines how often multibar rests are to be divided. For
instance, if the value of this textbox were set to 10, a forty-bar rest would
be displayed as four ten-bar rests.
Multibar rests, Starting at:
This textbox determines when the first bar of multibar rests can be
applied to a section of music.
Multibar rests, Slanted multibar rests:
If checked, multibar rests become slightly slanted.
Old style short multibar rests (< 9 bars):
If checked, multibar rests shorter than nine bars use the old style composite
symbols.