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Re: change barline type with time signature change


From: Janek Warchoł
Subject: Re: change barline type with time signature change
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:15:36 +0100

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jan-Peter (and anyone else still interested in this thread):
>
> In the end, the conductor of my chamber opera asked to have the bar lines 
> solid for all measures, but 50% grey and slightly thicker than default as the 
> "baseline", and black and slightly thicker still for bar lines concurrent 
> with a time signature change — I easily adapted the engraver and my context 
> defaults to suit.
>
> He is thrilled with the result**, and hence so am I.
> (** He goes so far as to say that this should be the standard notation 
> practice!)

This reminds me of an idea i had: make stafflines under rests grey, to
make it immediately obvious where an instrument is resting (see
attached - obviously a bigger example would demonstrate this idea
better, but i don' have one).  How do you like it?

Janek

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