Re: Lilypond problems

[Jonathan Kulp]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote  Saturday, December 13, 2008 2:14 AM
> > Am Samstag, 13. Dezember 2008 02:48:14 schrieb address@hidden:
> > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008, Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> said:
> > > > Should we change \bar "." to create a single
> > > > thick barline for reasons of consistency and instead add a new
> > > > bar line style \bar "dot" to create a single dot as a bar line?
> > >
> > > newbies dumb Q - will the switch impact extant user files?
> >
> > I don't think so. If you look at what \bar "."produces, ie.
> >
> > \version "2.11.65"
> > \relative c' { c4 \bar"." c4}
> >
> > (image is attached) then you'll see that such a "barline" doesn't make 
> > much
> > sense at all.
>
> I vaguely remember seeing such a dot used to separate the two parts of a
> bar in compound time, much like the common dotted or dashed barline, but
> I can't find an example.  Can anyone else?
If I understand what you're referring to, then I pretty sure Bartok uses 
this in the first movement of Music for Strings, Percussion, and 
Celeste.  My scores are at the office so I can't confirm right but I'm 
almost certain he uses vertical lines of dots to show metrical grouping 
in a compound-meter bar.

Jon

> It's possible I'm thinking of the identical symbol used to indicate 
> pointing in
> psalms, but \bar "." can't be used for that in LilyPond - the dot is 
> placed in
> the associated staff rather than the Lyrics.
>
> Trevor



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