> On 20 Mar 2025, at 18:56, Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com
> <mailto:rich...@rshann.plus.com>> wrote:
>> When using \bar ":|." in a piano staff the barline spans the two
>> staffs, but when using \bar ":|]" it does not - is there a way to fix
>> this?
>
> When I ran your example source with 2.25.24, I got a thin line spanning the
> staves. Is this not what you see? (attached picture)
>
> --
> Knute Snortum
>
> <repeat-spanning-staves.png>
If you’re looking for a way to connect the staves with the thin-thick barlines
instead of the thin line - those would need a custom barline to be defined with
\defineBarLine
e.g.
8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
\version "2.24.4" % should also work at 2.25, but I don't have the development
version installed, so I could not check; rendered result is from 2.24.4
\defineBarLine ":|]-connected" #'( #t #f " |.")
\score {
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff <<
\new Voice {
c'1 \bar ":|]-connected"
c'1
}
>>
\new Staff <<
\new Voice {
\clef bass
c1 \bar ":|]-connected"
c1
}
>>
>>
}
8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
Which renders as

[1] https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/bar-lines
