Re: Repeats starting and ending in mid-bar?

[pls]

On 17.11.2013, at 15:57, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm occasionally repondering the barline |: :| issue and I want to know
> if anybody's music typesetting theory text or private music library has
> examples of repeats starting and/or ending in mid-bar.  I seem to
> remember that there is some weakened double bar in use for that,
> something like ||: :|| instead of the current .|: :|. (according to our
> notation).  Do I remember right?
Gardner shows two examples of repeats starting in mid-bar (p. 226).  In one of 
them the thin line of the repeat mark is omitted leaving only the thick line 
and the colon. But he writes that this practice is not recommended.

hth
patrick