Re: Adding repeat bars at the beginning of a chant piece

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno sab, 15/01/2011 alle 20.42 -0700, Carl Sorensen ha scritto:
> On 1/15/11 8:18 PM, "Michael Dykes" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I have a piece of Orthodox Chant that requires a repeat at the very
> beginning
> > of the piece. Attached is the piece with all of the music and the
> repeat at
> > the end of where the repeated music ends, but I also need the repeat
> sign at
> > the beginning of this piece. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Put the repeat bar in manually at the beginning of the music:
> 
> \bar "|:"
> 
> See the Notation Reference 1.2.5. 

Micheal,

if you want the repeat sign to be printed *after* the tempo sign, use
the override shown in Notation Reference 1.4.1, Manual Repeat Marks
(selected snippets).

BTW, I can see that the snippet now has a second override, which
slightly improves the look.

Cheers,
Federico