I'm sorry the following is rather lengthy; I've tried to be as concise as possible.
• My music-reading friends and I find that in lilypond version 2.12.2, bar lines of the default thickness are unpleasantly heavy and obtrusive (especially double bar lines, which have virtually no white space between the two lines). An earlier version (2.4.6, I think) produced far cleaner-looking lines. In an attempt to get better bar lines I tried including the command \override Staff.Barline #'hair-thickness = #n with various values of n. But even with n = 0 the lines seemed slightly thicker than the 2.4.6 **default** ones, and the double bar lines produced by \bar “|:” , \bar “||” , \bar “:|” , \bar “.|” etc. still had hardly any white space between them. Moreover, in a song with lyrics between the treble and bass clefs, every bar line had an unwanted dot attached to it at the level of the lyrics baseline (using GrandStaff— because PianoStaff put the lyrics below the bass staff). These dots looked like full stops in the lyrics. Was the above override command formulated correctly, or is there any other way I can overcome these faults? I emailed the lilypond-user address with some requests for help and mentioned this problem too: Daniel Hulme thought the fault might be only in the PDF image, but it's in the printout too; Marc Hohl wrote that it was a known bug of evince, not lilypond; and Kieran MacMillan thought the unwanted dots were due to the SpanBar being still at full thickness. I don't fully understand these comments; I'll be very grateful for your advice. • I think (on the basis of the window produced by Insert > Special Character . . .) that the command \char #2014 in an input file should produce a long dash. However, it produces a different character. Is this a bug?--with an earlier lilypond version \char #169 similarly failed to produce the copyright symbol but now behaves as expected. David. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
