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Element: bar-style

Description

The bar-style type represents barline style information. Choices are regular, dotted, dashed, heavy, light-light, light-heavy, heavy-light, heavy-heavy, tick (a short stroke through the top line), short (a partial barline between the 2nd and 4th lines), and none.

Derived By

Type bar-style-color

Attributes
Name  Type  Required?  Default  Description 
color  color  No 
Content Model

Contains text only.

Referenced By
Example

regular (normal) barline

(regular is implied if no barline element is present in a measure)

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>regular</bar-style>
      </barline>

dotted barline

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>dotted</bar-style>
      </barline>

dashed barline

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>dashed</bar-style>
      </barline>

heavy (solid) barline

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>heavy</bar-style>
      </barline>

double barline


      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>light-light</bar-style>
      </barline>

final barline

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>light-heavy</bar-style>
      </barline>

heavy-light barline

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>heavy-light</bar-style>
      </barline>

heavy-heavy barline

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>heavy-heavy</bar-style>
      </barline>

tick barline

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>tick</bar-style>
      </barline>

short barline

      <barline location="right">
        <bar-style>short</bar-style>
      </barline>
Definition

See barline

 

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