Re: invisible barlines at breaks

[Mats Bengtsson]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Mats,
>
> > What in the documentation contradicts this behaviour?
>
> "Volta: The repeated music is not written out but enclosed in repeat 
> bar lines. If the repeat is at the beginning of a piece, a repeat bar 
> line is only printed at the end."
>
> This is not at the beginning of a piece, but a repeat bar line is only 
> printed at the end of the music.
> Perhaps there needs to be an explicit indication that the previous bar 
> line setting affects this behaviour (which is not at all intuitive)?
What's probably not intuitive the first time you encounter these things, 
is that the
ending bar line of the previous line and the beginning bar line of the 
next line
is one and the same bar line, musically. Once you think about it, it's 
fairly obvious.

The section on Bar lines, says:
"This and other special bar lines may be inserted manually at any point. 
When they coincide with the end of a bar they replace the simple bar 
line which would have been inserted there automatically."
which also covers the current situation. It would probably be a good 
idea to
modify the example of \bar "||:" to also include a proper \repeat 
command, and
to add something like your comment in that context.

  /Mats