Re: Bar line problem

[Cameron Horsburgh]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:59:37AM -0400, Palmer, Ralph wrote:
> Greetings -
> 
> I'm a novice at LilyPond. I'm running LilyPond 2.8.4.1 on Windows XP
> Professional, V. 2002, SP2.
> 
> I cannot figure out how to set a particular pair of bar lines. In the
> following file, the default line breaks occur where I would like them -
> after each 4 measures. At the end of Part B (which coincides with a
> default line break), I would like to show a section break ( || ). I'd
> also like to have an open repeat ( |: ) at the start of Part C (= the
> start of the next line). I got the "||" to work properly, but there was
> no "|:" to open the repeat section. When I forced the "|:" ( \bar "|:"
> ), the section break disappeared and became a regular bar line. I tried
> forcing the line break after the section break at the end of Part B, but
> that didn't work.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thank you for your time and attention,
> 

This came up in the list a few weeks ago (popular question!) but the docs don't 
seem to list it.

Try using \bar "||:"

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