Re: Repeat volta not at beginning of piece doesn't get initial repeat bar line

[Jay Anderson]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Patrick or Cynthia Karl <address@hidden> wrote:
> Section 1.4 of the Notation Manual says about volta repeats:
>
> volta           The repeated music is not written out but enclosed between 
> repeat bar lines. If the                             repeat is at the 
> beginning of a piece, a repeat bar line is only printed at the end of the     
>                          repeat.
>
> But the following snippet does not generate the initial repeat bar line, 
> apparently because of the "||" bar line.  But the "||" bar line does not 
> indicate the end of a piece.
>
> I have tried several things to get the inital repeat bar line to appear 
> without success.  I suspect it's not very difficult.  Can anyone please tell 
> me how to do it?  And if I'm correct about the problem being caused by the 
> "||" bar line, the documentation should probably be changed.
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> music = \relative b' {
>     a1 a a a
>     \bar "||"
>
>     \break
>
>     \repeat volta 2 { a4 b c d }
> }

You're right that the \bar "||" is overriding the repeat bar. I assume
you're wanting a double bar before the break. Use \bar ".|:-||"
instead. You can lookup valid bar strings in bar-line.scm.

-----Jay