Re: brackets and bar lines

[Neil Puttock]

On 31 July 2010 10:20, David Biddiscombe <address@hidden> wrote:

> 1. With an earlier version of lilypond, the correct twinning of brackets of
> various kinds could be easily checked: when the cursor was moved to a bracket
> its twin was highlighted. Please could we have this extremely useful facility
> back?

Which editor are you using?

> 2. I think that in all the printed music I've ever seen, except for that 
> fairly
> recently produced by lilypond, all bar lines have the same thickness as those
> immediately before the clefs at the beginning of each system (I think they're
> called system-start bar lines?). I would like ALL bar lines to be a slim as 
> the
> latter (as they were with earlier version/s of lilypond), but 
> default-thickness
> within-system bar lines produced by recent versions are about *four times* as
> thick as the system-start ones, which I find ugly and unacceptable. The 
> desired
> result is almost produced by
>             \override Staff.BarLine #'hair-thickness = #'0
> but in piano staves this makes dots appear in the middle of each bar line. 
> When
> centred lyrics are present these dots look like full stops in the text. The
> input below illustrates this problem.

See my reply to your previous thread concerning this issue:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-11/msg00034.html

See also the discussion here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-12/msg00338.html

Cheers,
Neil