Re: First Measure bar

[Graham Percival]

On 21-Oct-05, at 1:07 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> I hope you have a good reason to deviate from standard music 
> typesetting
> practice. As far as I can see, it's hard-coded into LilyPond to not 
> typeset
> the opening repeat at the beginning of a piece, but if there is a 
> general
> need for such an option, it should be easy to make this configurable.

No need -- just insert the bar manually.

{
  \repeat 2 volta {
  \bar "|:"
  c1 c c
  }
}

Cheers,
- Graham