Re: Bar lines at far left of single staff systens.

[dfro]

On 6/4/18 10:52 PM, Karlin High wrote:
> On 6/4/2018 9:38 PM, dfro wrote:
> > Is there a setting to get bar lines to show on the far left side of 
> > single staff systems?
> That sounds similar to this thread.
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-05/msg00579.html>
> From the example there, you can adjust the SystemStartBar.thickness 
> value to fit your needs.
>
> For help beyond that, you will probably have to further explain your 
> project or provide an image of what you want.

Karlin,

Thank you for the information! That works for me. A line thickness of 2
looks like the other bar lines.

Is there a way to dynamically unset the System_start_delimiter_engraver
in the music block so that the first staff system has no bar line, and
then set it so that all the remaining staff systems begin with the bar
line? My noob experiments have not worked. Below is the example code I
am using.

I am making jazz leadsheets (melody and chords) where the clef is
written once at the beginning, and chordsheets where no clef is written.
I see this practice of drawing the leftmost bar line in many of my jazz
and percussion music books. That has also been my practice most of the
time when writing single staff music by hand.

Thanks again for the help,

David


%Start of code

\version "2.18.2"

\new Staff \with {
  \consists "System_start_delimiter_engraver"
  systemStartDelimiter = #'SystemStartBar
  \override SystemStartBar.collapse-height = 0
  \override SystemStartBar.thickness = 2
}
{
  c'1 \break     % I would like no bar line at far left.
  c'1 \break     % I would like a bar line at far left from this line on.
  c'1
}

%End of code