Re: Lilypond problems

[Trevor Daniels]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote  Saturday, December 13, 2008 2:14 AM
> Am Samstag, 13. Dezember 2008 02:48:14 schrieb address@hidden:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008, Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> said:
> > > Should we change \bar "." to create a single
> > > thick barline for reasons of consistency and instead add a new
> > > bar line style \bar "dot" to create a single dot as a bar line?
> >
> > newbies dumb Q - will the switch impact extant user files?
>
> I don't think so. If you look at what \bar "."produces, ie.
>
> \version "2.11.65"
> \relative c' { c4 \bar"." c4}
>
> (image is attached) then you'll see that such a "barline" doesn't make 
> much
> sense at all.

I vaguely remember seeing such a dot used to separate the two parts of a
bar in compound time, much like the common dotted or dashed barline, but
I can't find an example.  Can anyone else?

It's possible I'm thinking of the identical symbol used to indicate pointing 
in
psalms, but \bar "." can't be used for that in LilyPond - the dot is placed 
in
the associated staff rather than the Lyrics.

Trevor