>> Aha, I thought: try adding an invisible barline at the beginning of >> bar 5. That works fine to position the volta bracket correctly, but it >> also makes the barline at the end of bar 4 invisible also, even when I >> add a manual single barline at the end of bar 4. (See Example B >> below.)
> <URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/bars#bar-numbers> > does explain break-visibility. > David Kastrup Thanks, David. I hope I'm not missing the point. I have some understanding, I think, about the visibility of _bar numbers_ (for example, I realize that an invisible barline at the beginning of a piece will make the first bar number visible, if the break-visibility of bar numbers is set correctly). I also understand that overrides are available to make bar numbers visible or invisible depending on where they are located in relation to line breaks (that is, at the end, middle or beginning of the line). My problem, however (apart from that I first encountered, namely, the bad placement of the volta bracklet colliding with the key signature), was the disappearance of the _barline_ at the end of the preceding bar when I added an invisible barline at the beginning of the next line. I apologize if it should be readily apparent how what is said in the documentation you cite about visibility of bar numbers would be applicable to visibility of barlines in the circumstances I mentioned, but it wasn't apparent to me. For example, I can't find anything that tells me how adding an explicit invisible barline affects break-visibility properties of any explicit barline in the preceding bar or line. While I'm certainly not sure that I've properly understood the role of break-visibility in this, a quick check suggests to me that an invisible barline \bar "" when placed at the beginning of _any_ bar appears to make the previous barline invisible even if it has been spelt out as \bar "|". At any rate, my problem with the colliding volta bracket remains. Cheers, Philip _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
