Alternating eighth notes and rests

How to alternate eighth notes and rests in such a way, that the beam connects the notes bridging the rest?

You can work with invisible, mute notes and graphically inserted rests. Or you have a plugin do the work - Mr. Peter Becker and Mr. Urs Ganz both wrote a plugin for this use case: 

 

 

 

Plugins by Urs Ganz