Dear Valentine and Jean,
Many thanks for the help and documentation. I think once upon a time Aaron
or someone else gave me the link. Good to have it again.
mattfong
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 3:08 PM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote:
> Hello Matthew,
>
> and or can be done by (or ...), like (or somthing1 somthing2) (though you
> can
> have any amount of arguments).
>
> But at some points you might want to do something like this:
>
> \version "2.22.2"
>
> #(define spanbars
> '("||" "|." ":|." ".|:" ":|.|:"))
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \ChoirStaff
> \consists Span_bar_engraver
> \override BarLine.allow-span-bar =
> #(lambda (grob)
> (member (ly:grob-property grob 'glyph)
> spanbars))
> }
> }
>
> \new ChoirStaff <<
> \new Staff { 1 1 \bar "||" 1 \bar ":|." 1 \bar ".|:" 1 \bar ":|.|:" 1
> \bar
> "|." }
> \new Staff { \repeat unfold 6 c'1 }
> >>
>
> or if you want to span anything BUT a normal barline you might want to use
>
> (not (equal? (ly:grob-property grob 'glyph) "|"))
>
> instead.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
>
> Am Freitag, 18. März 2022, 22:57:33 CET schrieb Matthew Fong:
> > Hello Valentin,
> >
> > Awesome. I've been wanting to learn more Scheme! I just need to figure
> out
> > OR statements to get a final bar!
> >
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > mattfong
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 7:11 PM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at>
> wrote:
> > > Hello Matthew,
> > >
> > > if you want you can even automatise this:
> > >
> > > \version "2.22.2"
> > >
> > > \layout {
> > >
> > > \context {
> > >
> > > \ChoirStaff
> > > \consists Span_bar_engraver
> > > \override BarLine.allow-span-bar =
> > > #(lambda (grob)
> > >
> > > (equal? (ly:grob-property grob 'glyph)
> > >
> > > "||"))
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > \new ChoirStaff <<
> > >
> > > \new Staff { 1 1 \bar "||" 1 }
> > > \new Staff { 1 1 1 }
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Valentin
> > >
> > > Am Freitag, 18. März 2022, 00:44:46 CET schrieb Matthew Fong:
> > > > Dear Jean,
> > > >
> > > > Grazie mille! This is exactly what I was looking for:
> > > > [image: Screen Shot 2022-03-17 at 16.43.13.png]
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks,
> > > > mattfong
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 3:55 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Le 17/03/2022 à 23:22, Matthew Fong a écrit :
> > > > > > Hello Jean,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I only want the bar lines interstaff at the double bar, and not
> at
> > > > > > every measure. The purpose is this helps better visually mark the
> > > > > > end
> > > > > > of a phrase.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm also trying to avoid Mensurstriche layout, since the choir
> > >
> > > doesn't
> > >
> > > > > > seem to like it very much.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Many thanks,
> > > > > > mattfong
> > > > >
> > > > > Ah, sorry, I misread completely. You could do
> > > > >
> > > > > \version "2.22.2"
> > > > >
> > > > > \layout {
> > > > >
> > > > > \context {
> > > > >
> > > > > \ChoirStaff
> > > > > \consists Span_bar_engraver
> > > > > \override BarLine.allow-span-bar = ##f
> > > > >
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > spanBarHere = \once \override ChoirStaff.BarLine.allow-span-bar =
> ##t
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > \new ChoirStaff <<
> > > > >
> > > > > \new Staff { 1 1 \spanBarHere \bar "||" 1 }
> > > > > \new Staff { 1 1 1 }
>
>
