‘Merge matching rests’ default value as a staff style property

[rpatters1]

Your idea

Add a Merge matching rests by default option to the Staff Style properties that checks (or unchecks) Merge matching rests accordingly when new staves are created.

Problem to be solved

The Merge matching rests option in the Staff properties is an excellent feature, but I and (I suspect) many others would like it always to default to checked when starting a new project or importing a MusicXML. To this end, I would like to see a new style property that accomplishes this.

I've been assured that one can do this with templates, but that cuts me off from all the built in templates unless I go through and recreate every one of them.

Prior art

Finale added this feature as a document-level setting a number of years ago, due to clamorous demand from the user base. Since that version, it is the default setting for all new documents, even the bare-bones "New document without libraries". As with MuseScore, it can be overridden with manual edits on specific rests.

Additional context

This is a project I could work on, if there is consensus that it is a good idea.

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