When making editions of medieval and Renaissance music, it is customary in 6/8 (and other compound meters) to write a 3-8th-note rest as a dotted quarter rest, but to write 2-8th-notes of rests as two eighth rests:
I’ve looked at Inputting rests - #26 by Rinaldo and know how to get this done in a one-off manner, but it gets very tedious to do it over and over again. Is there a meter setup that specifies that dotted rests are allowed, but quarter rests are not?
(The reason for this, by the way, is that there was no symbol for a rest of 2/3 of the compound beat so it had to be written as two 1/3 beat symbols. For those of us jumping back and forth from original to modern edition, it’s really helpful (as much as possible) to see one symbol in the edition for every symbol in the original. Hence also things like not obeying tie rules in either of the parts’ second measures.). Thx!