+;;;; This file is part of LilyPond, the GNU music typesetter.
+;;;;
+;;;; Copyright (C) 1998--2009 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
+;;;; Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
+;;;;
+;;;; LilyPond is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;;;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;;;; (at your option) any later version.
+;;;;
+;;;; LilyPond is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+;;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;;
+;;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;;; along with LilyPond. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+;; TODO: should link back into user manual.
+
+(define (mm-rest-child-list music)
+ "Generate events for multimeasure rests,
+to be used by the sequential-iterator"
+ (let ((location (ly:music-property music 'origin))
+ (duration (ly:music-property music 'duration)))
+ (list (make-music 'BarCheck
+ 'origin location)
+ (make-event-chord (cons (make-music 'MultiMeasureRestEvent
+ 'origin location
+ 'duration duration)
+ (ly:music-property music 'articulations)))
+ (make-music 'BarCheck
+ 'origin location))))