RE: Starting a repeat at the beginning, II

[Palmer, Ralph]

> > This, however, doesn't seem to be true. I cannot get \bar "|:" to
> > print without either using Score.BreakAlignment or else using a skip
> > before the \bar "|:" (to "attach" the \bar "|:" to, if I had to
> > guess), and using the skip moves the repeat sign even further than
> > Score.BreakAlignment does, if in the opposite direction.
> 
> Hmm... I hadn't noticed that. :)
> 
> It appears to be another case of quirkiness when there's no explicit
context
> creation; the following snippet works fine:
> 
> \new Staff \relative c' {
>   \bar "|:"
>   c d e f
> }
> 
> Regards,
> Neil

Hmm. . . from me, too. I have not been including \new Staff at the
beginning of my examples in repeats.itely, but I can see that some of
the original (to me) examples did include \new Staff. Is this standard
practice? Shall I add \new Staff to all my examples?

Peace,
Ralph