Re: Repeat volta not at beginning of piece doesn't get initial repeat bar line

[Patrick or Cynthia Karl]

> In lilypond-user Digest, Vol 139, Issue 98 Message: 6, Jay Anderson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:53:23 -0700
> From: Jay Anderson <address@hidden>
> To: Patrick or Cynthia Karl <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Repeat volta not at beginning of piece doesn't get
>       initial repeat  bar line
> 
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Patrick or Cynthia Karl <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>> Section 1.4 of the Notation Manual says about volta repeats:
>> 
>> volta           The repeated music is not written out but enclosed between 
>> repeat bar lines. If the                             repeat is at the 
>> beginning of a piece, a repeat bar line is only printed at the end of the    
>>                           repeat.
>> 
>> But the following snippet does not generate the initial repeat bar line, 
>> apparently because of the "||" bar line.  But the "||" bar line does not 
>> indicate the end of a piece.
>> 
>> I have tried several things to get the inital repeat bar line to appear 
>> without success.  I suspect it's not very difficult.  Can anyone please tell 
>> me how to do it?  And if I'm correct about the problem being caused by the 
>> "||" bar line, the documentation should probably be changed.
>> 
>> \version "2.18.2"
>> 
>> music = \relative b' {
>>    a1 a a a
>>    \bar "||"
>> 
>>    \break
>> 
>>    \repeat volta 2 { a4 b c d }
>> }
> 
> You're right that the \bar "||" is overriding the repeat bar. I assume
> you're wanting a double bar before the break. Use \bar ".|:-||"
> instead. You can lookup valid bar strings in bar-line.scm.

Sorry, that doesn't work for me, result is the same.  I assume you're saying to 
replace the \bar "||" with \bar ".|:-||".

I still don't understand why the "||" bar is overriding the repeat bar, as "||" 
doesn't signify end-of-piece so the \repeat volta is not at the beginning of a 
piece so the initial repeat bar line should be printed.