Re: Repeats with bar-engraver removed

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "J" == J Stasko <r400653@gmail.com> writes:

    J> I need to be able to engrave repeats, but I fear that the bar-engraver,
    J> which I turned off for chant music, is responsible for engraving the
    J> repeats: when I turn it back on, then the repeats appear, but since the
    J> music is chant, it runs off the page.

It depends on how you turn off engraving the bars.  It looks like you
are doing something much more drastic than what I do.

What I do is make the barlines transparent and with 0 width:

\override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t
\override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0)

and then when I want one to appear, I override the transparency:

seerepeat = {    \once \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##f}

If there's a reason you really want to remove the bar line engraver
instead of just modifying what it does, you're going to need someone
else to explain how to put some of its actions back.

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