Re: Problem with barre music function

[Neil Puttock]

2009/4/2 Nick Payne <address@hidden>:
> I have a music function I use for barring indications in guitar scores, and
> for a reason that I haven't been able to work out, if the TextSpanner used
> for the barring indication wraps from the staff where it begins to the
> following staff, and also terminates at the first note of that staff, then
> nothing gets drawn above that first note. If it wraps to the following staff
> and terminates at any note other than the first, then it works correctly.

I'm afraid this is deliberately hard-coded; see the bug report here:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=663

Though the report discusses glissandi, it actually applies to all
spanners using ly:line-spanner::print.

Regards,
Neil