Marc Hohl <[email protected]> writes: > Am 13.07.2014 18:45, schrieb Richard Shann: >> On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 13:15 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > [...] >> \version "2.18.0" >> \defineBarLine "]" #'(":||" "||" "||") >> >> { >> c2 \bar "]" c2 \bar "]" >> \break >> \bar "]" >> d >> } >> >> This I read as saying that \bar "]" should show as a double bar when >> mid-line (my interpretation of the third element of the list, called >> "span" in the documentation. But it is typesetting as a horned solid >> barline. > > No, 'span' covers the appearance of the bar line *between* staves. > The first argument (']' in your example) is used for bar lines mid-line. > > I admit that the bar line interface and its documentation are far from > being perfect. The what-you-see-is-what-you-get approach seems to > confuse quite a lot of users. > > There was some discussion about making the interface more user-friendly > and allow for aliases, but there is no final consensus yet IIRC.
I don't remember any full proposal. I think it was more a problem of somebody actually having the time to work on this. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
