On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:17 AM Evan Driscoll <eva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Disclaimer: I realize I'm on an older version of Lilypond. If that makes
> things substantially more difficult it's not out of the question I could
> upgrade, but I'd rather not at this time.
>
> I'm trying the following:
> \version "2.20.0"
> \relative c'' {
> c4
> c
> \bar "!"
> c
> c
> }
>
> and this works, it gives me a dashed barline between the second and third
> notes.
>
> However, I can't figure out how to get a double dashed barline. \bar "!!",
> "!|", and "|!", as well as `\bar "!" \bar "!"` are my four guesses, but
> none work -- I get no barline with any of the first three, and just one
> with the doubled-up `\bar`s.
>
> Is this possible? What's the right markup for this?
>
It looks like \defineBarLine works in version 2.20, so:
\version "2.20"
\defineBarLine "!!" #'("!" "!" "")
{
s1 \bar"!!"
s1
}
The version-specific manual for that is:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/bars#bar-lines
--
Knute Snortum
