Re: Start score with barline (after time signature)

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-01-29 8:05 am, Urs Liska wrote:
> I need to engrave a score that starts with a barline immediately after
> the time signature (to demonstrate the barline, that is), as can be
> seen in the attached image.
>
> By default this barline is not printed at all, but when I insert a
> very short skip (even 1/128) there is a pretty huge gap between the
> time signature and the barline.

You can change the default behavior for bar lines:

%%%%
\version "2.19.82"
#(define-bar-line "||" "||" "||" "||")
{ \bar "||" b'1 }
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill