Re: Barlines

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On 21 avr. 2013, at 11:11, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

> Greetings List,
> 
> In setting a contemporary piece, I have need of being able to place 
> 'barlines' at various places that are not exactly barlines as such, for 
> example, right after the time signature and before any notes - not exactly 
> traditional notation engraving style. Other places also, where stretches of 
> non-musical time occur. I have been able to write some postcript in markup to 
> fake this out, but it does not seem correct or elegant. How should one go 
> about dong this properly?
> 
> I tried using \partial with s rests to achieve the initial barline before the 
> music, but this always seems to result in too wide a gap.
> 
> Andrew
> 

{
  a4 \bar "|" a4 \bar "|" a4 \bar "|" a4 % automatic bar
}

Cheers,
MS