On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Patrick or Cynthia Karl <pck...@mac.com> wrote:
> Section 1.4 of the Notation Manual says about volta repeats:
>
> volta The repeated music is not written out but enclosed between
> repeat bar lines. If the repeat is at the
> beginning of a piece, a repeat bar line is only printed at the end of the
> repeat.
>
> But the following snippet does not generate the initial repeat bar line,
> apparently because of the "||" bar line. But the "||" bar line does not
> indicate the end of a piece.
>
> I have tried several things to get the inital repeat bar line to appear
> without success. I suspect it's not very difficult. Can anyone please tell
> me how to do it? And if I'm correct about the problem being caused by the
> "||" bar line, the documentation should probably be changed.
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> music = \relative b' {
> a1 a a a
> \bar "||"
>
> \break
>
> \repeat volta 2 { a4 b c d }
> }
You're right that the \bar "||" is overriding the repeat bar. I assume
you're wanting a double bar before the break. Use \bar ".|:-||"
instead. You can lookup valid bar strings in bar-line.scm.
-----Jay
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