All you're missing is the closing angle brackets ">>", which maybe your mail program saw as quote marks.
Paul On 22/08/2021 22:34:47, "ole" <m...@oleschmidt.info> wrote: >> \new StaffGroup >> << >> \new Staff { b1 \mark \default \bar "p|" b \break \bar "p|" b } >> \new Staff { b1 b b } >>>> >> >> >> >> HTH, >> Harm >> > > >Unfortunatly your example is not complete here, can you please send it again, >thanks!