Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Frankly, it always confuses me when i have to code a thick line
>> using "." - it's very unintuitive.  What about changing this to
>> some other character?  Maybe uppercase i?  It looks "thicker" -
>> unless you use a sans-serif font...
>
> +1
> 
> I thought about uppercase I, too. "|I" looks not too bad.

Uh, oh, please not a letter.  I almost always use seriffed fonts, and
it looks rather strange.  What slightly longer but easy to remember
symbolics?

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  || |:

  :| ||

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  :| || |:

Since there doesn't exist a single thick barline in any notation
AFAIK, there is no ambiguity.


    Werner