Re: Style question for bar checks

[Keith OHara]

Noeck <noeck.marburg <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Would you recommend putting the bar check always after the note or in
> some circumstances also after an including brace?
 
>   \alternative {
>     { a2 b } |  % wrong
>     { a2 a } |  % wrong
>   }

If there is more than one measure in each alternative sequence,
then the | go inside each the {} for each sequence.
If each alternative sequence is shorter than one measure, 
the | has to go outside the entire \alternative {{} {}} |

Alternatives that fit exactly one measure could be written either way.
I prefer a single | outside the \alternative 

> This makes me think one should perhaps always write `a | }`
> instead of `a } |` – but how about this case?
>   a2 \tuplet 3/2 { a4 a a } |

The tuplet is less than a measure long, so the | makes more sense outside.

I make fewer mistakes when I use Michael Hendry's style 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-04/msg00892.html

| \alternative {{a2 b} {a b}}
| \tuplet 3/2 {a4 a a} a2
| a2 \tuplet 3/2 {a4 a a}