Re: Bar lines

[Thomas Morley]

2013/3/6 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Marc Hohl <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> The basic idea behind the bar line interface based on Harm's
>> work, and I like the idea of having a 1:1 representation of the
>> bar line stringwise.
>
> For specifying the visual composition of a particular bar type: full
> agreement.  That makes excellent sense.  What does not make sense is to
> require the user to specify the visual composition of a bar every time
> he wants to use it.  That's WYSIWYG without style sheets.

I don't know if it would be easy to implement, though, how about sth like:

\defineBarLine bartype #'(middle end begin span)

where the bartype is a more or less logical and intuitive naming to be
used with \bar "bartype"

-Harm