Likewise for Skink, on all platforms - I hate software that tries to second-guess me...

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John Chambers wrote:

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> | I've never seen music written without the end of a line ending a bar.  But I am 
>not a music scholar like many people on this page, so maybe its a common practice.  
>In any case, does this cause a problem?
>
> Well, when the first version of abc2ps came out with the w:
> feature,  one  of  the  first  things that I tried was some
> songs that were aligned by phrases, without  bar  lines  at
> the  ends  of staffs.  I was duly impressed to find that it
> worked properly. I tested this partly because I was already
> aware  that  some musicians seemed to think that staffs had
> to have bar lines at the end, and some even think that  bar
> lines  are  forbidden  at  the beginning.  So I appreciated
> having a tool that doesn't  impose  some  artificial  rules
> based on someone's ideas of music notation based on a small
> sample from one or two musical styles.
>
> Anyway, most of the abc2ps  clones  should  happily  accept
> music with or without bar lines on either end of the staff.
> They mostly just do what you tell them, and don't "correct"
> your notation.
>
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