Re: Questions on beaming and barring

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Nick,

> I tested the Mutopia source adelita.ly file with Lilypond 2.11.58

The file was written for Lilypond 2.8.0, and many things have changed  
since then.

Usually, I would suggest running convert-ly, but that appears not to  
work on this file for some reason (which I'm too busy to figure out  
right now) — instead, I manually updated the following function  
definition for you:

barre = #(define-music-function (parser location padding text  
shorten) (number? string? pair?)
#{
        \once \override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #1
        \once \override TextSpanner #'font-shape = #'upright
        \once \override TextSpanner #'edge-height = #'(0 . 1)
        \once \override TextSpanner #'padding = #$padding
        \once \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = #$text
        \once \override TextSpanner #'shorten-pair = $shorten
#})

That should do what you want.

HTH!
Kieren.