Re: how to get half-bar used in Bach Music?

[Alexander Kobel]

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On 2010-11-22 12:38, Martin Kemp wrote:
> I've just been struggling with this too. All else having failed, I faked
> it by using an invisible bar line and adding:
>
> \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(-1 . 3.5) c8_\markup {
> \musicglyph #"rests.M2mensural" }

Woah, that's some ugly hack...
Again, I don't see the need for this - I just tested the following, and 
it works just perfect for me (use \halfBar to make a "real" bar line at 
the end of a measure appear smaller, and \halfAddBar to insert a "fake" 
barline of half the usual extent).  If it doesn't in your setting, could 
you give a small compiling example to show the problem?

halfBar = \once \override Staff . BarLine #'bar-size = #2
halfAddBar = { \halfBar \bar "|" }

\relative c' {
  c4 c \halfAddBar c c \halfBar |
  c c c c |
}


Cheers,
Alexander