Re: Bar lines. Was: Lilypond pieces already entered

[Michael Kallas]

Hi,

Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> schrieb am 13.01.05 13:46:01:
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> Gordon Gilbert wrote:
>  >...
> > And about the bar lines -- I've not had a great deal of success with them, 
> > and prefer automatic setting of barlines.
> 
> What problems have you experienced? Of course you should let LilyPond
> find the bar line positions automatically, but the idea of the bar
> checks '|' is to help you find typing mistakes. If you have inserted
> bar checks where you expect the bar lines to be and LilyPond finds out
> that the rhythm doesn't match, it will print out a warning and tell you
> in what bar you have the error. I've found this invaluable since it's
> very easy to make mistakes when typing in a piece.

Barcheck is really great, yes, but I've found some times it fails when it 
shouldn't.
Try for example:
\time 4/4
r4 R4*3 |
This fails reproduceably in 2.4.2 (or am I coding nonsense here)?
I've found also some curious error which I try to reproduce, but that one seems 
to be spurious.

See you
Michael