Using the tilde for rests is something Peter Gannon taught me many years (decades?) ago. If you are in Editable Notation Mode, you use the left-click of a mouse to enter a note. But if you hold down the tilde and left-click BELOW or ABOVE a note, it erases the note.

It's a great time saver. It doesn't 'enter' a rest, but it converts a note to a rest. Is that what you mean?

ps in BIAB for Windows version 2022, this is on page 192:

Entering Rests
Insert a rest by holding the back-quote key (tilde key without pressing Shift) then clicking on the Notation window. Another
way to enter a rest is to click on the Rest checkbox and then point and click where you want the rest to appear. This
automatically shortens the duration of the previous note.

And I think the confusion in this description (insert or enter a rest) might be because you would not enter a rest when there was already a rest.

Having said all this, I will admit that this method using the tilde can stop working under some circumstances. I try not to mix this method with clicking on the Rest checkbox. Likewise, clicking on Mono sometimes helps.



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