Re: full repeat bracket for 2nd ending

[Robin Bannister]

Richard Wattenbarger wrote: 
> Is there a way to force LilyPond to draw a standard single bar
> instead of the ".|" glyph?

As I said, this flexibility is not provided. 

Which bar lines have this side-effect is currently hardcoded in C++. 
A likely enhancement would make this selection overrideable, so that 
it would be possible to temporarily switch in the "|" barline too. 
It would help in this regard if you could explain why you need the 
bracket to be closed like this, e.g. does it involve a coda? 


You could go low-level and replace the BarLine and SpanBar stencils 
with Postscript routines to draw a suitable single line. 
But the original stencils have a lot of additional logic; this would be lost. 

Or you could keep the single bar line and replace the VoltaBracket stencil. 
But this would do the wrong thing at line breaks. 


Today I had a lateral thought for a workaround in this special case: 
use overrides to make the existing stencil morph the bar line  from "|." 
(sometimes automatically changed to ".|") to "|".  
So try using \simpleBarLineClosingVB instead of \bar "|." 

simpleBarLineClosingVB = {
 \bar "|." 
 \once \override Score.BarLine #'thick-thickness = #0
 \once \override Score.BarLine #'kern = #0
}


Cheers, 
Robin