Barline across the treble and bass staffs

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olivermccallion
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Post by olivermccallion » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:32 pm

Heya!
I have a small problem in that I'm trying to harmonize a bach choral, and it has to be in a particular layout, which happens to look quite similar to a set of piano staffs, where the bar lines continue from the treble staves to the bass staves (the line goes through the white bit in the middle). I'd prefer to use the choir instrument though so I can get a better idea of what it would sound like when I play it back, however the bar lines on the choir instrument don't go across the white bit in the middle of the treble and bass staves. Is there anyway I can get the choir instrument to just have a continuous bar staff?
I hope that made sense :P
Thanks!!!


JimmyJOL
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Post by JimmyJOL » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:54 am

Oliver:

If you Shift+Left Click on any bar line of a staff, a little box will appear on all the bar lines at the bottom of that staff. You can then drag that box down to extend the line(s) to as many staves as you like.

Hope this helps.

Be Well,

Jimmy

dircules
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Post by dircules » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:37 am

Good to know. Is there an alternative to apply that action to final barlines only, so that all normal barlines remain separated, and only the final barline gets merged?

dircules
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Post by dircules » Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:12 pm

Nobody's got an idea? Maybe I could not point out the problem properly?
Well, here we go again.

Sibelius gets me this:
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or this:
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But what I want is this:
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Sebasian
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Post by Sebasian » Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:24 pm

dircules wrote:But what I want is this:
You need to insert the last barline by hand, I'm afraid.

Use the existing Vertical Line (from the Lines Menu) for the thin line, and make a New line, based on Vertical Line, with a Line Width of 0.51 for the heavy part of the final barline.

dircules
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Post by dircules » Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:44 pm

After all, that's way better than editing the score in Photopaint / Photoshop, or whatever... one of the many improvements Sibelius would need.

However, thanks a lot for your care, Sebasian, now I got a 'vertical thick line' in my lines menu, and you even figured out the line size for me :D

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Post by cook0224 » Thu May 30, 2019 1:27 am

Ok, I'm trying to do the same thing as dircules. I selected "choral reduction" to set up the score, because I have text between the staves, but I want my barlines to go all the way through both staves at the ends of systems and at repeat signs, final barlines, etc.

I'm working on fixing this issue on a repeat sign. I used a vertical line from the line menu to connect the thin line through both staves, but I'm having trouble getting the thicker dark line of the repeat sign to go through both staves:
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I don't know how to get 0.51 thickness.

Any help? Thank you! Thank you!

MikeLyons
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Post by MikeLyons » Thu May 30, 2019 7:55 am

Try the following (Follow the steps in the image)

The line will initially be quite short, but by zooming in you will be able to drag the top and bottom to suit.
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