Re: Missing double bar

[Mats Bengtsson]

Marguerite Plank wrote:

> I apologize if this ends up being posted twice...
>  
> I'm new to LilyPond and have resisted for the past week jumping in and 
> asking a newbie question.

Welcome!

> Instead, I've used the documentation and googled the list for 
> answers. Here's what has me stumped...
>  
> I want a double bar line at the end of staff 2. I have it indicated, 
> and it appeared until I started messing with the volta position. Now 
> it won't show.

There is an example in the section on Bar lines in the manual
that shows exactly this situation, where you want a double bar
at the end of a line and a starting repeat bar at the beginning
of the next line.

>  
> I'm also mystified as to why the tagline at the bottom isn't 
> changing--is my header code in the wrong part of the file? I've tried 
> moving it, but then it breaks and won't compile.

I hope you have realized that the example you include below
contains a few syntax errors, you have to replace
title = \left-align \markup  {
by
title =  \markup  {\left-align
and
\new Staff  \with {   volta OnThisStaff = ##f  }
by
\new Staff  \with {   voltaOnThisStaff = ##f  }

This means that LilyPond fails to compile the file, so the
PDF file you are looking at is probably left over from a
previous attempt. If you just fix these syntax errors to that
the file compiles again, I'm sure you will see the desired tagline
in the output.


   /Mats