Re: Bugs with \set Staff.whichBar

[Colin Hall]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:13:25PM +0000, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
> The 2.16 documentation says that \set Staff.whichBar = "|:" "will create a
> start-repeat bar in this staff only". What it actually seems to do in 2.16.1 
> is
> insert a start-repeat bar after every note in that staff until the end of the
> score. I haven't looked at the code but I guess that it's clearing
> Timing.whichBar even if whichBar was actually set in a different context.
> 
> The obvious workaround, \once \set Staff.whichBar = "|:", prints the repeat 
> bar
> correctly but then never prints any automatic bar lines in that staff until 
> the
> end of the piece. I think this may be a bug introduced by
> codereview.appspot.com/4810042, which never unsets a \once \set variable even 
> if
> it was unset before.

Thanks for the very thorough-going bug report, Ben.

Could you send a tiny example that demonstrates the unexpected
behaviour?

Cheers,
Colin.

-- 

Colin Hall