Re: Dashed bar lines

[Trevor Bača]

On 1/30/07, Marcel Korpel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Because I am transcribing renaissance music I am looking for a method
> to draw dashed bar lines. In this case, it is not appropiate to draw
> bar lines between staves, because that would clash with the lyrics
> and, moreover, I use different time signatures for different staves.
>
> I am aware of the possibility of drawing dotted bar lines (using
> Timing.defaultBarType = ":"), but those dots are a bit too large for
> this purpose (a bit nitpicking, I know).

The 2.10 NEWS file gives an example of dashed (rather than dotted) barlines:

 http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html

Barlines between staves are printed (or not) as SpanBar grobs.
Overriding SpanBar #'transparet = ##t might help.


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