Re: \bar ":|:" inconsistency?

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 20.40, Steve Shorter wrote:
> Howdy!
>
>       I was wondering about the apparent difference in repeat bars
>
>       Seems
>
> \bar "|:"
>
>
>       and
>
> \bar ":|"
>
>       et al have a thick bar, followed by a thin bar followed by the ":"
>
>       but
>
> \bar ":|:"
>
>       only has the thick bar followed by the ":".
>
>       Checking other printed scores shows that the convention is
> to always have a thin bar just before the ":".
>
>       See
>
>       http://linuxsweet.com/bar.pdf
>
>       for a simple example.
>
>       Is this a design decision, oversite or ???

I checked with scores from both Henle and Baerenreiter Urtext, and they do :|: 
barlines exactly the same way as lilypond (dots, two thick lines, dots). So 
this seems to be the standard convention.

Do you have any good examples of scores where a different convention is used?

Erik