MultiMeasureRest - trying to be clever ...

[Anthony Youngman]

I want to change the default value of expand-limit rather than override
it within my "voice" part that I put all the notes in. I could put it
there without much difficulty but the way I lay my parts out it feels
wrong for it to go there.

Is there any way I can change its value within the Score or Staff
context, and have it take effect at Voice level? I did try

\set MultiMeasureRest.expand-limit = 1

which seems logical, but it blows up because the parser thinks the "-"
is a minus sign not a hyphen (or something like that). Should I possibly
have #' or something in there?

On a more general level, the use of \override seems quite common. It
would be nice to be able to change the defaults - there are various
places where lilypond and I disagree as to what is "normal". I don't
remember seeing anything about it in the manual, if someone will tell me
how to do it I can write up a paragraph or two to document it.

Cheers,
Wol

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