Re: Issue 1962 in lilypond: Visible gap in span bar when making lyrics to avoid bar lines

[lilypond]

Comment #5 on issue 1962 by address@hidden: Visible gap in span bar  
when making lyrics to avoid bar lines
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1962

LSR 648 changes the height to two spaces and moves it up a space.

This does the same, without having to use extra-offset:

\once \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(0 . 2)

If you run the snippet through convert-ly it should change bar-size ->  
bar-extent and split the size into a pair (i.e., 2 -> '(-1 . 1) )

You're right to query why it's an internal property.  It should of course  
be moved to user-space.