Re: I ought to have a bar line here...

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mo., 26. Okt. 2020 um 23:47 Uhr schrieb Carl Sorensen
<carl.d.sorensen@gmail.com>:
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> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 4:35 PM Thomas Morley <thomasmorley65@gmail.com> 
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>> Hi Carl,
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>> Am Mo., 26. Okt. 2020 um 23:04 Uhr schrieb Carl Sorensen 
>> <c_sorensen@byu.edu>:
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>> > Try this:
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>> > \defineBarLine ".|:-|." #'("|." ".|:" "")
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>> Though, \defineBarLine ".|:-|." #'("|." ".|:" #f) _should_ work as well.
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>> It's a bug in 'ly:bar-line::calc-anchor' in bar-line.scm, triggered by
>> the RehearsalMark requiring an anchor.
>> The anchor-calculating procedure compares the span-glyph using
>> string=? which bombs out if span-glyph is not a string.
>> One should likely use equal? here.
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> Thanks, Harm!  Sometimes it's almost as good to be lucky as to be good.  You 
> are absolutely right, of course, and were I not too lazy to do so, I'd have 
> looked up the  line where the actual error was.  Instead I just saw that #f 
> didn't work, so I changed to "",

Patch's up
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/483

Cheers,
  Harm