Re: Joining barlines at the ends of lines?

[Xavier Scheuer]

Hi,

2009/9/14 Andrew Giddings <address@hidden>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know whether it's possible to automatically join the barlines at 
> the ends of lines across all staffs?
>
> I'm writing a piece for SATB+piano -- a ChoirStaff of two staffs, above a 
> PianoStaff of two staffs also, all combined in a GrandStaff.  So normally 
> each barline is split into three separate bits: one on the top choir staff, 
> one on the bottom choir staff, and one across both piano staffs.
>
> What I'd *like* to be able to do is to specify that the last barline of each 
> line -- each barline down the right-hand edge of the page -- should join up 
> across all four staffs, just like at the start of each line.

Funny, somebody asked exactly the same thing on the french user
mailing list 3 weeks ago.
The easiest answer was :

\override  Score.SpanBar #'break-visibility = #'#( #t #f #t )


> Also, if that's possible, it'd be nice to join up the the 'special' barlines: 
> double-barlines, repeat marks, etc. in a similar way.  (That might need care 
> around lyrics, of course.)

There is the "SemiChoirStaff trick" in the LSR :
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=299


Xavier