Re: bar-line problems

[Neil Puttock]

2009/11/2 David Biddiscombe <address@hidden>:

> I emailed the lilypond-user address with some requests for help and
> mentioned this problem too: Daniel Hulme thought the fault might be only
> in the PDF image, but it's in the printout too; Marc Hohl wrote that it
> was a known bug of evince, not lilypond;

It's most likely to be your PDF viewer, since the settings for
barlines haven't changed since 2.4.6.

If I view your PDF using evince, the barlines are still quite thick,
despite the 'hair-thickness override; furthermore, the printout is
also faulty.  On the other hand, using okular, both image and printout
have very faint barlines (and the default appearance with BarLine
overrides removed is fine).

> and Kieran MacMillan thought
> the unwanted dots were due to the SpanBar being still at full thickness.

This is caused by the addition of the Bar_engraver to the Lyrics
context, so you need to make these barlines invisible (either by
overriding BarLine #'transparent = ##t or setting whichBar = #"").

> • I think (on the basis of the window produced by Insert > Special
> Character . . .) that the command \char #2014 in an input file should
> produce a long dash. However, it produces a different character. Is this
> a bug?--with an earlier lilypond version \char #169 similarly failed to
> produce the copyright symbol but now behaves as expected.

The number 2014 is in hexadecimal, so you either need to tell \char
that you're passing a hex value or convert it to decimal:

\char ##x2014

\char #8212

Regards,
Neil