Re: How to override bar line?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Sounds like a useful idea. Just one comment - maybe "left" and "right"
are not the best names since it's rather related to before and after the
line break. I don't have any better idea of a concise naming, though.

  /Mats

Erik Sandberg wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 15.38, Fairchild wrote:
>  
>
> > Erik -
> >
> > Is this documented somewhere?
> >
> > \once \override Score.BarLine #'break-glyph-function = #(lambda (glyph dir)
> > (if (> 0 dir) "|." "|:"))
> >    
>
> Nope, it's something I created using my limited guru skills.
>
> I just looked quickly, and I think \leftBar and \rightBar would be pretty 
> clumsy to implement without changing the scheme code for \bar slightly.
>
> Han-Wen, would you accept well-written patches to introduce \leftBar and 
> \rightBar commands? Suggestion for semantics:
> - \bar sets the barline style for barlines not at line breaks, plus defaults 
> for barlines at breaks
> - \rightBar and \leftBar override the defaults set by \bar.
>
> So, essentially, there would be a 'left-break-glyph and 'right-break-glyph 
> which the default break-glyph-function will look for, and use to override the 
> default values.
>
>  

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