Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing

[David Nalesnik]

Hmmm....

I'm having misgivings about the idea of fixed space between symbols.

Looking at several Breitkopf & Härtel parts, I see rests spaced to
fill available space.  Though, because spacing is compact, we never
see the awful behavior Jan-Peter's example reveals.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2,_Op.73_(Brahms,_Johannes)#Parts
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1,_Op.21_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)#Parts

Instead of having fixed spacing between symbols, would it be better to
have a limit on how much a rest can be stretched?  This would be
expressed in staff-spaces (like the current minimum which is
hard-coded as 1 staff-space).

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Another observation from the parts cited above:

LilyPond creates an 8-bar church rest (rests.M3) which is a composite
of 2 four-bar symbols (rests.M2): see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#rest-glyphs
 The cited parts do use a composite glyph, rather two normally spaces
4-bar symbols.:

In the following, we get an 8-bar symbol followed by a whole rest.
Should there be at least an option to have this expressed as three
equally-spaced symbols: 4 + 4 + 1?

\version "2.19.53"

{
  \compressFullBarRests
  R1*9
}