On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 19:48 +0100, Hans Aikema wrote:
>
>
> > On 20 Mar 2025, at 18:56, Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM Richard Shann
> > <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote:
> > > When using \bar ":|." in a piano staff the barline spans the two
> > > staffs, but when using \bar ":|]" it does not - is there a way to
> > > fix
> > > this?
> > >
> >
> >
> > When I ran your example source with 2.25.24, I got a thin line
> > spanning the staves. Is this not what you see? (attached
> > picture)
> >
> > --
> > Knute Snortum
> >
> > <repeat-spanning-staves.png>
>
> If you’re looking for a way to connect the staves with the thin-thick
> barlines instead of the thin line - those would need a custom barline
> to be defined with \defineBarLine
>
> e.g.
>
> 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
>
> \version "2.24.4" % should also work at 2.25, but I don't have the
> development version installed, so I could not check; rendered result
> is from 2.24.4
> \defineBarLine ":|]-connected" #'( #t #f " |.")
>
> \score {
> \new PianoStaff <<
> \new Staff <<
> \new Voice {
> c'1 \bar ":|]-connected"
> c'1
> }
> >>
> \new Staff <<
> \new Voice {
> \clef bass
> c1 \bar ":|]-connected"
> c1
> }
> >>
> >>
> }
>
> 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
>
Thank you very much for this: food for further study there. I think
what would look better was if the top staff had the tail above and the
bottom staff the tail below - so it would look a bit like a brace. I'll
try to study the docs under \defineBarLine to see if this can be done.
Richard
