On Tue 11 Mar 2025 at 20:53:05 (-0500), Lilypond-User wrote: > Sorry for the late response. Using \bar ".|:-||” accomplished what I > needed, albeit confusingly. Since the II precedes the .|: on the output PDF, > why isn’t the correct syntax for this command \bar “||-.|:” ? I had > actually tried this because \bar ".|:-||” is counterintuitive, and I didn’t > try that because it seemed backwards.
Because the symbol that's normally printed is the first part. The second part is added only at line breaks. So it's \bar "normal-supplementary". (BTW you're using mismatched quotes.) Cheers, David.
\relative { f'1 \bar ".|:-||" 1 \bar ".|:-||" 1 \bar ".|:-||" 1 }
