Re: Questions on beaming and barring

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Nick,

2008/9/19 Nick Payne <address@hidden>:
> Neil
>
> Thanks. I used your function definition in a short test and it worked just as 
> I wanted. Strangely, however, when I used the function identically in the 
> piece I'm engraving, I just get a dashed line where I should see the barring 
> indication, and I can't see why it works with one and not the other.
>
> Foo.ly and foo.png - test and output as expected.
> Barrios.ly and barrios.png - shows only a dashed line over bar 7 where the 
> barre indication should be.

Since the overrides in \barre use \once, it must be placed directly
before the note where the text span starts, otherwise all the settings
are forgotten:

\barre #0.0 "CIV" #'(0 . 0) <d-4>->\startTextSpan

Regards,
Neil