Re: Start score with barline (after time signature)

[David Kastrup]

Aaron Hill <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 }
> %%%%

Probably better for both spacing and Midi than my hack.

-- 
David Kastrup