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Re: \bar ":|:" inconsistency?
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Erik Sandberg |
Subject: |
Re: \bar ":|:" inconsistency? |
Date: |
Thu, 13 May 2004 10:37:32 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 11 May 2004 20.40, Steve Shorter wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> I was wondering about the apparent difference in repeat bars
>
> Seems
>
> \bar "|:"
>
>
> and
>
> \bar ":|"
>
> et al have a thick bar, followed by a thin bar followed by the ":"
>
> but
>
> \bar ":|:"
>
> only has the thick bar followed by the ":".
>
> Checking other printed scores shows that the convention is
> to always have a thin bar just before the ":".
>
> See
>
> http://linuxsweet.com/bar.pdf
>
> for a simple example.
>
> Is this a design decision, oversite or ???
I checked with scores from both Henle and Baerenreiter Urtext, and they do :|:
barlines exactly the same way as lilypond (dots, two thick lines, dots). So
this seems to be the standard convention.
Do you have any good examples of scores where a different convention is used?
Erik