How do I force a bar line?

[Jim Sabatke]

I'm writing a converter for BMW (a windows bagpipe music 
program) to Lilypond conversion program.  There are 
thousands of BMW files on the web, so it will be useful.

Pipers are very picky about how their music is printed, 
hence this and other questions I will be asking.

QUESTION:  How do I force a bar immediately after the time 
signature at the beginning of a piece?  I've tried the 
following, and many other things, with no success:

\notes {
    \time 2/2
    \tieUp
    \stemDown
    \slurUp
    \key d \major
    \relative c'
    \transpose c c' {
        #(add-grace-property 'Voice 'Stem 'length 6)
        #(add-grace-property 'Voice 'Stem 'thickness 1.0)

===>>>  \bar "||" \noBreak
        \partial 64*12
        e'8 a'16
        \noBreak %% Line: 1 Bar: 1
        \dbhg g'4 a'8[ e'8] \dbhg g'4 \tg d'8[ e'8]  |
        \noBreak %% Line: 1 Bar: 2

TIA,

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