Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:11 +0100, James wrote:
> On 11/07/14 18:00, Richard Shann wrote:
> > It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but:
> >
> > \defineBarLine "|" #'("|" "|" "|")
> >
> > does the trick.
> >
> > Richard
> So do we need to improve the documentation?
> 
> If so, what do you suggest?

Well, clearly

"This and other special bar lines may be inserted manually at any point
where they make good sense in terms of good music typesetting practice."

would be an truer.
Or did you mean, should that override be documented? I can't answer that
because I don't know if it is a stable feature - I just guessed. In fact
I have further problems of a similar nature. The chord chart requires
double bars to be printed despite a start-repeat bar following on the
next line - even writing

\defineBarLine "||" #'("||" "||" "||")

does not cause the double bar to appear at the line end. There is surely
a lack of detail about what the list elements (end begin span) actually
mean.

Richard

> 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/bars#index-bar-lines
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 17:49 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> >> For chord charts a barline is wanted at the start of each line of music
> >> - \bar "|" is, of course ignored in this position.
> >> Can anyone suggest how to force printing a barline here (after the time
> >> signature, if any).
> >>
> >> Incidentally, the documentation is slightly misleading on this point:
> >>
> >> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/bars#index-bar-lines
> >>
> >> says
> >>
> >> "This and other special bar lines may be inserted manually at any point."
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>   
> >>
> >>
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