Older editions of classical music often skipped rehearsal letter J, going from I to K. I know I can accomplish this by changing the sequence index on J, but it would be nice if there were an engraving option to automatically skip J if the sequence type is Letters.
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Here is some interesting reading.
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No J in Italian;
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(Waiting for someone to suggest that we should skip 13 if we’re using numbers.)
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Schoenberg beat you to it.
I know of some middle school band teachers that would absolutely pay extra for a feature that will not place a rehearsal mark at bar 69 
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Four bars of intro, then eight times eight will get you there. It’s a surprisingly common one.
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Or measure 666 for larger works…
I’m sure this guy would like only prime numbers;
Marc Evanstein is well worth following.
His scamp library for python makes it simple to generate stuff like this and produce xml or MIDI for import into Dorico.
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