Hi Mac,

I would agree ("Maybe that's why the dialog in Song Settings specifies Rests and does not mention Shots and Holds"), except per the BBW manual (2013, and prior) that states:

"With the menu selection Edit | Copy Rests you can copy the attributes of a chord over a range of other chords. Rests also include shots and held chords." Shots and holds are explicit in the manual.

Additionally, "Rest types" are defined as rest, shot, or hold in the manual and the "Chord Settings" dialog in the "Rests" region (not trying to be argumentative here...)

I know the operative word above is 'chord', but similarly so is 'rests, 'shots' and s held 'chords', that I interpret to mean plural. The pop-up over the "Copy Rests From Bar #" and "Num Bars to Copy" states:

"Range
The 'Copy Rests From Bar' and '# Bars To Copy' fields determine the range of bars to be copied"

The pop-up over the "Copy To Bar #" field states:

"Copy to Bar
The Rests that occur in the range above will be copied and added to any chords that are entered in this bar"

Note the phrase "range of bars to be copied", implying the source, I think. The phrase "Rests that occur in the range above..." to me indicates several rests, shots, holds.

The "Copy Rests" dialog "Copy Rests From Bar #" would indicate that all chord attributes (up to four chords) in a bar or in multiple bars can be copied, unless the "Beat #" field is set to other than 1 (the pop-up here states: "I you do not want the rests to be copied right from the beginning of the bar, you can choose which beat to begin on"), but that's not how it works since you only get one beat's worth, no matter what this field is set to. So I guess my question is:

How did PG intend this function to work? I know you and Matt (and several others) are one of the long-standing beta testers, so I'd be curious as to the requirements (spec) for the copy rests operation vs. the test process (yes, I know that won't be forth coming, but had to ask). Maybe the manual and dialog should read "Copy Rest From Bar #" (Rest being synonymous with shot, hold), instead of "Rests" if that's what PG means, because I'm not sure now.

Since the 'Copy Chords and or Melody' function gives you the choice of including/excluding bar settings, lyrics, etc., I thought (perhaps incorrectly) the 'Copy Rests' function was simply a streamlined way to copy one or more chord(s) and the attributes in a range of bars to a target range of bars The pop-ups in the dialog indicate that (to me at least).

Not knocking PG, as their products are top notch (using them since the 2004 editions). But I do think the documentation and the pop-ups don't match the function result for this feature.

Richard