Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

[David Kastrup]

Marc Hohl <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 13.07.2014 18:45, schrieb Richard Shann:
>> On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 13:15 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> [...]
>> \version "2.18.0"
>> \defineBarLine "]" #'(":||" "||" "||")
>>
>> {
>>      c2 \bar "]" c2 \bar "]"
>>      \break
>>      \bar "]"
>>      d
>> }
>>
>> This I read as saying that \bar "]" should show as a double bar when
>> mid-line (my interpretation of the third element of the list, called
>> "span" in the documentation. But it is typesetting as a horned solid
>> barline.
>
> No, 'span' covers the appearance of the bar line *between* staves.
> The first argument (']' in your example) is used for bar lines mid-line.
>
> I admit that the bar line interface and its documentation are far from
> being perfect. The what-you-see-is-what-you-get approach seems to
> confuse quite a lot of users.
>
> There was some discussion about making the interface more user-friendly
> and allow for aliases, but there is no final consensus yet IIRC.

I don't remember any full proposal.  I think it was more a problem of
somebody actually having the time to work on this.

-- 
David Kastrup