Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 08:38 +0200, Marc Hohl wrote:
> Am 15.07.2014 16:14, schrieb Richard Shann:
> > Well, I'm not sure I follow the distinction between defined bar-types
> > and not, this code
> >
> > \version "2.18.0"
> > \defineBarLine ":" #'(":" ":" ":")
> > \defineBarLine "|" #'(":" ":" ":")
> > \score {
> >
> >      \new PianoStaff <<
> >          \new Staff = "RH"  <<
> >           \new Voice  {
> >           c''  c'' c'' c'' c'' c''  }
> >          >>
> >          \new Staff = "LH"  <<
> >           \new Voice  {
> >            c''  c'' c'' c'' c'' c''  }
> >          >>
> >      >>
> > }
> >
> > gives no warning but prints the double dots above instead of below the
> > top staff.
> > But perhaps that is a separate bug.
> 
> IIRC, it is not possible to use the repeat colons as span bars, they are 
> placed above the first system and not repeated even if you use more than 
> two staves (and therefore more than one instance of a span bar).

well, we are back to the question of what should the docs say, "IIRC"
here refers to ...?

> 
> Do you have a real-world example where this would be of some use?
> 

Not at all - the bug would just be that there is no warning, and strange
output (I take it there is no real-world use for the repeat dots
hovering in the air above the top staff?).

> > In any case, I seem to have a workable method for creating the bar types
> > needed for chord charts. Attached is an example of the sort of output.
> > The code to generate this is now in Denemo's git and will be in the
> > 1.1.8 release.
> 
> Looks good!

Thank you :)

Richard


> 
> Marc
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