RE: First Measure bar

[Kress, Stephen]

But this puts the opening time signature inside the repeats.  When an open repeat is used in all the music I've ever seen, the time signature is outside (to the left of) the opening repeat.

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Fri 10/21/2005 1:54 PM
To: Mats Bengtsson
Cc: address@hidden; VSD; Kress, Stephen
Subject: Re: First Measure bar


On 21-Oct-05, at 1:07 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> I hope you have a good reason to deviate from standard music
> typesetting
> practice. As far as I can see, it's hard-coded into LilyPond to not
> typeset
> the opening repeat at the beginning of a piece, but if there is a
> general
> need for such an option, it should be easy to make this configurable.

No need -- just insert the bar manually.

{
   \repeat 2 volta {
   \bar "|:"
   c1 c c
   }
}

Cheers,
- Graham