Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>>> 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?
>
>   |
>
>   ||

How about ! then?  It actually has both | and . in it, and it _is_ a
sentence ending punctuation.

>   || |:

!: or !|: (I don't actually know what you want here)

>   :| ||

:!

>   | ||

Uh, |! or does this even exist?

>   :| || |:

:!:


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David Kastrup