Why not use |: and :| for onbar-repeats and /: and :/ for inbar-repeats.
Surrounded with whitespace a parser could handle this as separate
tokens and it will not conflict with the A/2 syntax.
Also you can be explicith now if needed:
| /: abc abc | abc abc :/ | abc /: abc | abc :/ abc |
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