Re: Syntactical question [was: Re: Call for help with bar lines]

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

    >> \bar "" inserts an empty stencil, so the padding around the
    >> (invisible) bar line is preserved.

    David> Yes, I understood that.  But what do we need that for?

For the Renaissance music I transcribe, the composers weren't thinking
in bar lines, so it's  both unhelpful and unaesthetic to have, for
instance, a run of quarter notes interrupted by the extra space where
the non-existent barlines would be if they existed.

The way I finally figured out how to do this with the old bar line
interface was that instead of saying that the default bar type was
either empty or "", I leave the default bar type, and make it
transparent, and then remove the padding.  But I never figured out how
to remove the padding from an empty or null bar line.

I hope that the new interface both makes more sense than the old one,
and still allows me to set barless music without ugly gaps where the bar
lines aren't.

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