On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:23:26AM -0400, Kieren
MacMillan wrote:
Hi,
Am I the only one who
puts bar checks at *both* the beginning and end of a
bar?
|
a4 b c d |
|
e f g a |
You’re the only one I’ve ever heard of doing so. =)
Exactly ½ of your bar checks are redundant, of course.
[...]
I realize it's redundant, but I use it as a visual aid. :-)
I like formatting my input in paragraphs of 4 or 8 bars
each, and having
a visual marker for both the start and end of a bar lets me
easily tell
where a bar starts / ends when its contents don't fit on a
single line
(or is more readable wrapped to multiple lines):
|
a4 a a a |
|
a4 a a a |
|
a4 -\tag #'no-partcombine -\f
-\tag #'midi -\ff
a a a |
|
a4 a a a |
|
b4 b b b |
|
b4 b b b |
|
b4 b b b |
|
b4 b b b |
...
etc.
In the 3rd bar above the trailing | lets me immediately see
that the end
of the bar is on the 3rd line, and that the previous two
lines are
incomplete, whereas if I only wrote | on one end of the bar,
it would
take more effort to scan with my eye to find the bar
boundaries.