Re: Manual volta placement and invisible barline kills previous barline

[David Kastrup]

"Philip Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi fellow-users,
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> I don’t know whether I have one joint problem or two separate ones. My
> apologies for running them together in the same post if they are in
> reality separate issues.
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> I’m putting together a vocal (choir) score in the key of G major which
> has five repeated sections. I tried input using automatic repeats, but
> getting that correctly coordinated between both music and the lyrics
> defeated me (volta repeats starting in the middle of hyphenated words,
> etc.), so I opted to insert manual volta brackets.

LilyPond does not really worry about words I think; it works on
syllables.  So that should not really be an issue.

> Aha, I thought: try adding an invisible barline at the beginning of
> bar 5. That works fine to position the volta bracket correctly, but it
> also makes the barline at the end of bar 4 invisible also, even when I
> add a manual single barline at the end of bar 4. (See Example B
> below.)

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/bars#bar-numbers>
does explain break-visibility.

-- 
David Kastrup