Re: Repeat volta not at beginning of piece doesn't get initial repeat bar line

[David Kastrup]

Patrick or Cynthia Karl <address@hidden> writes:

>> Message: 6
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:20:16 +0200
>> From: Marc Hohl <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Repeat volta not at beginning of piece doesn't get
>>      initial repeat  bar line
>> [...]
>>> Sorry, that doesn't work for me, result is the same.  I assume you're 
>>> saying to replace the \bar "||" with \bar ".|:-||".
>> 
>> Typo?
>
> No, I cut and pasted.
>
> It turns out that in my zeal to come up with a minimal example, I
> omitted "\score { \new Staff { \music }}.  My example compiled, but
> didn't generate the initial repeat bar line.  Putting it in makes it
> work.  Thanks for the info.
>
> Do you know why omitting the \score info causes the initial repeat to also be 
> omitted?

Without a score, no PDF file is written, so you get to see the result
from the last run that _did_ produce a PDF.

-- 
David Kastrup