On Thursday 13 May 2004 04:37, Erik Sandberg wrote: > 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?
Schott--20th century, is always dots thin thick thin dots. Two thicks is just old fashioned. HDM has thick thin dots and dots thin thick, with no mention of dots without a thin. There's nothing wrong with either. How far do you want to go with looking old? daveA -- Paying more at the gas pump? Bush's Oil Sheikh Buddies, who support Al Qaeda, Palestinian terrorists, & hate-U.S. school systems everywhere, need more of your money now to arm and pay Iraqis to kill Americans. D. Raleigh Arnold dra@ (http://www.) openguitar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
