Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> writes:

> 2013/3/6 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>:
>> Marc Hohl <m...@hohlart.de> writes:
> [...]
>>> The basic idea behind the bar line interface based on Harm's
>>> work, and I like the idea of having a 1:1 representation of the
>>> bar line stringwise.
>>
>> For specifying the visual composition of a particular bar type: full
>> agreement.  That makes excellent sense.  What does not make sense is to
>> require the user to specify the visual composition of a bar every time
>> he wants to use it.  That's WYSIWYG without style sheets.
>
> I don't know if it would be easy to implement, though, how about sth like:
>
> \defineBarLine bartype #'(middle end begin span)
>
> where the bartype is a more or less logical and intuitive naming to be
> used with \bar "bartype"

Spot on.  That's quite what I had in mind, and it makes aliases
straightforward, too.

-- 
David Kastrup

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