Re: Angled bar lines

[Malte Meyn]

Am 10.08.2016 um 22:43 schrieb Philip (Michael) Dykes:
> Hi I need to get a section at the beginning of a piece of liturgical
> music I have (Only Begotten Son) in which /*sometimes*/ a certain thing
> is sung but /not /normally sung indicated. The typical manner I have
> seen this done is via the use of angled bar lines the same as that of
> the angled repeat bar lines I have seen in frescobaldi and such but
> without the repeat signs. Is there a way to do that? I really hope there
> is.

You have to define your own bar line style using \defineBarLine:

\version "2.18.2"

\defineBarLine "[" #'("|" "[" ".")
\defineBarLine "]" #'("]" "" ".")

\relative {
  c'1 \bar "[" c \bar "]" \break
  c \bar "[" \break
  c \bar "]" c
}