Re: repeat bar at the beginning of a piece

[Marc Hohl]

Steve Tarr schrieb:
> I'm working with 2.13.20, trying to reproduce a piece of shape-note 
> music that has a 4-dot (with no line) repeat bar at the beginning of 
> the piece.
>
> The snippet titled "Printing a repeat sign at the beginning of a 
> piece" works as described if I use the "|:" bar, but doesn't display 
> the bar if I use ":" (or any other bar style) instead.
>
> What's special about "|:" in this case?  Is there some property I can
> override to allow arbitrary bar lines to be displayed at the beginning
> of a piece?  Or is there something I can change so that ":" will be 
> treated as a repeat bar just as "|:" is?
As a somewhat hackish solution, you can start the piece with an 
invisible grace note, like this:

\version "2.13.20"

test = \relative c' {
 \grace s16
 \bar ":"
 \repeat volta 2 {
   c4 d e f | g f e d
 }
}

\score {
 \new Staff {
   \new Voice {
     \test
   }
 }
}

If you have multiple voices, make sure that the invisible grace note is 
in every
voice, otherwise the output will be cluttered.

HTH,

Marc

> -Steve Tarr
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