Re: Repeats starting and ending in mid-bar?

[David Kastrup]

pls <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Huh.  Recommended or not, that would seem to correspond to .: :. in our
shorthands.

Thanks.

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David Kastrup