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Bar lines

Section Bar lines had become out-of-date, apparently last updated before Lilypond version 2.17.5. In that version (and others?) bar line notations were added and several changed. Thus the examples using the older notations no longer were displayed and did not work when used elsewhere. Note that the Lilypond documentation is also out-of-date to a similar extent. (I'll file a doc bug report)

So far I've only found notation changes documented in the Lilypond upgrade scripts, e.g. "python\convertrules.py". These changes can be verified (old to new notation):

• "|:"  --> ".|:"
• ":|"  --> ":|."
• ":|:" --> ":..:"
• ".|." --> ".."
• ":"   --> ";"
• "dashed" --> "!"

There are other changes involving the segno signs, which I haven't investigated yet.

I've added the four new notations to the section examples:

• \bar ":.|.:"
• \bar "[|:"
• \bar ":|]"
• \bar ":|][|:"

though I've not seen them explained within Lilypond. The last three were something about 'frames'?

Additionally, the implementation of bar lines was changed at some point, to where the actual rendition of a notation may vary based on whether it is placed as a normal in-line bar line, or is located at the end of line or beginning of line, or whether the bar line spans between staves. Thus the example _should_ show all these possible usages! Shenme (talk) 21:34, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

The Lilypond documentation *has* been updated for these changes, as seen at Notation section 1.2.5 Bars. Shenme (talk) 23:20, 7 December 2018 (UTC)