Force Create Multi-measure Rest with Non-empty Measures

Default software behavior seems to be to break a multi-measure rest in a part if a measure is anything other than completely empty in that part.

I'll provide a specific example:

There's no need to break the multi-measure rest as this particular player has no need to know of the rit/a tempo.

Possible Solution:
1. Keep tempo marks (e.g. Allegro, quarter=34, etc.) in the tempo palette with the current behavior
2. Create a new palette called "Tempo Alterations" or somesuch. Move everything in the current tempo palette from "accel" on down to the new palette and don't have them affect multi-measure rest creation.

While a user can get around this issue by adding the rit/a tempo as staff text in any affected staves, it won't play back and it won't have the extender line as the current implementation does. Nor will they appear in the standard location atop the score if that instrument is resting.

I realize there are folks who prefer the current implementation - it's something I've seen in movie scoring, for instance - but an option for those of us who don't would be wonderful, thanks!

OR...is there a way to transfer an existing element between palettes, and would that change its behavior?

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