Re: Bar line definition with annotation

[Thomas Morley]

Hi,

Am Fr., 29. Mai 2020 um 22:36 Uhr schrieb Timothy Lanfear <timothy@lanfear.me>:
>
> \defineBarLine with annotation changes the span bar type when the bar is
> in the middle of a system, but not at the end. A modification of the
> example from
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/bars#bar-lines,
> does not give a dashed span bar at the end of the system.
>
> \defineBarLine "||-dashedSpan" #'("||" "" "!!")

Above means; at line-end use ||-bar, which has ||-span-bar.
Instead try:

\defineBarLine "||-a" #'("!!" "!!" "!!")
\defineBarLine "||-dashedSpan" #'("||-a" "" "!!")

>
> \new StaffGroup <<
>    \new Staff \relative c'' {
>      c1 \bar "||"
>      c1 \bar "||-dashedSpan"
>      c1 \bar "||-dashedSpan"
>    }
>    \new Staff \relative c'' {
>      c1
>      c1
>      c1
>    }
> >>
>
> Any suggestions to work around? The question arises in the context of
> Haydn's Farewell symphony where instruments drop out with a double bar
> appearing in one part with normal span bars in the rest of the system. I
> attach a skeleton of the last page of
> http://imslp.eu/files/imglnks/euimg/8/82/IMSLP31493-PMLP51750-Haydn-_Sinfonia_Nr45_(HCR_Landon).pdf,
> showing unwanted span double bars in the third system.
>
> --
> Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.
>

HTH,
  Harm