Re: Can't get it to look like I want it to

[Mats Bengtsson]

Tim Slattery wrote:
> I still can't get my output to look the way I want it to.Maybe
> Lilypond just doesn't do this.
>
> Traditional Sacred Harp music uses four dots, one between each line,
> for a repeat symbol. It looks just like what you get when you specify
> \bar":". The beginning of a repeat often starts in the middle of a
> measure, and I've gotten that effect by doing this (in a 6/8 song):
>
> | g2 \bar ":" r8 g8 |
>   
The code I sent you should produce the same result. The advantage of 
using a combination of \repeat and \bar as I proposed, is that you 
easily can use \unfoldRepeats to get all repeats played in the MIDI 
version (see section "3.5.4, Repeats  in MIDI"). Also, it agrees better 
with the philosophy that the input should describe the musical meaning, 
not only the desired layout.
> I don't know why it doesn't complain about the wrong number of beats
> in a measure, but it doesn't.
>   
Why should it, it's very common to have repeats or double bars in the 
middle of a measure.
> The other end of the repeat is at the end of a measure, so it should
> like the \bar":" symbol immediately followed by a normal bar line. And
> that I cannot do.
>   
You have already received a very nice answer to this question. Again, I 
propose to use it in combination with a standard \repeat construct.

   /Mats