Re: Do we really offer the future?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:23:26AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Am I the only one who puts bar checks at *both* the beginning and end of a 
> > bar?
> > 
> >     | a4 b c d |
> >     | e f g a |
> 
> You’re the only one I’ve ever heard of doing so.   =)
> Exactly ½ of your bar checks are redundant, of course.
[...]

I realize it's redundant, but I use it as a visual aid. :-)

I like formatting my input in paragraphs of 4 or 8 bars each, and having
a visual marker for both the start and end of a bar lets me easily tell
where a bar starts / ends when its contents don't fit on a single line
(or is more readable wrapped to multiple lines):

        | a4 a a a |
        | a4 a a a |
        | a4 -\tag #'no-partcombine -\f
             -\tag #'midi -\ff
          a a a |
        | a4 a a a |

        | b4 b b b |
        | b4 b b b |
        | b4 b b b |
        | b4 b b b |

        ... etc.

In the 3rd bar above the trailing | lets me immediately see that the end
of the bar is on the 3rd line, and that the previous two lines are
incomplete, whereas if I only wrote | on one end of the bar, it would
take more effort to scan with my eye to find the bar boundaries.


T

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