Breve rests outside the staff should have ledger lines.

[rpatters1]

Your idea

Breve rests outside the staff should display with ledger lines. Since Gould does not mention breve rests with ledger lines, I suppose it must be a Style option. The Rest panel is getting a bit crowded, but that seems like the most logical place.

Problem to be solved

While Gould and Ross are silent about breve rests with ledger lines, examples are easy enough to find in the literature. The following is from the Brahms Requiem (p. 161 of the Dover score).

And another (p. 166) showing both top and bottom ledger lines.

Prior art

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Additional context

Since there is already a rest symbol for breve-with-ledger-lines, this seems like a trivial change to Rest::getSymbol as follows:

    case DurationType::V_BREVE:
        return (line <= 0 || line >= lines) ? SymId::restDoubleWholeLegerLine : SymId::restDoubleWhole;
    case DurationType::V_MEASURE:
        if (ticks() >= Fraction(2, 1)) {
            return getSymbol(DurationType::V_BREVE, line, lines);
        }

There would be a little more work to implement a style setting if that were deemed necessary.

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