Re: First posting: Bar repeats and slashes: to all you jazzers out there

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Dear Lilypond folks,
> 
> Hi, I'm Amy from Berlin, Germany, and new to this list. I'm a jazz pianist and
> composer looking for a program that can typeset my scores easily under Linux.
> I'm perfectly satisfied with Lilypond, yet one thing is bugging me: I haven't
> found a way to do bar repeats ( ./.), double bar repeats (./ /.) and slashes
> (/) with Lilypond. Is there any way to do that? My fellow musicians would be
> screaming if I handed out completely written-out scores....

I implemented support for single bar repeats once, it was 
available in version 1.2.x and up to 1.3.21, see 
input/test/repeatbar.fly. I have the ambition to reimplement it 
using the \repeat syntax, adding also double bar repeats and 
single note repeats, but can't promise when it will be done.

  /Mats