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Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.


From: Thomas Morley
Subject: Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 00:38:46 +0200

2014-07-11 21:14 GMT+02:00 Richard Shann <address@hidden>:
> 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

Well, the following works for me:

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

{
    c1
    \break
    \bar "||"
    d
}

Could you provide a tiny example?

Cheers,
  Harm



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