Re: Are tick barlines too thin?

[Carl Sorensen]

Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold <at> kainhofer.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2008 22:13:57 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> > Neil Puttock wrote Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:36 PM
> >
> > > Should tick barlines be the same thickness as nornal barlines?
> > > Currently they get their width from line-thickness which makes them
> > > slightly lighter; it also makes it impossible to tweak their
> > > appearance without altering the look of the whole stave.
> >
> > Definitely.  We don't want different overrides for the different styles
> > of barline.
> 
> I first tried using the barline width for the tick, but then the ticks looked 
> strange and unlike the ticked barlines that I have seen in e.g. transcribed 
> psalms. since in those scores the tick appeared to be the same 
> width as the 
> staff lines, I decided to use that width instead of the barline width...

Sounds like ticks should be some fraction of the standard barline
thickness, instead of the staff line thickness.  That way, the override
would apply to barline, instead of staff lines.

Carl