On Tuesday 11 May 2004 20.40, Steve Shorter wrote: > Howdy! > > I was wondering about the apparent difference in repeat bars > > Seems > > \bar "|:" > > > and > > \bar ":|" > > et al have a thick bar, followed by a thin bar followed by the ":" > > but > > \bar ":|:" > > only has the thick bar followed by the ":". > > Checking other printed scores shows that the convention is > to always have a thin bar just before the ":". > > See > > http://linuxsweet.com/bar.pdf > > for a simple example. > > Is this a design decision, oversite or ???
I checked with scores from both Henle and Baerenreiter Urtext, and they do :|: barlines exactly the same way as lilypond (dots, two thick lines, dots). So this seems to be the standard convention. Do you have any good examples of scores where a different convention is used? Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
