Using LilyPond, I'm engraving some music that consists of two parts that are repeated. The first repeated phrase contains an alternate ending. By default, LilyPond renders the MWE below:
\version "2.16.2" \score { \new Staff \relative c'' { \repeat volta 2 { a1 | a } \alternative{ { b } { a } } \break \repeat volta 2 { c1 | c | c | c } } \layout {} }
like this:
This looks alright, except that I would like the second ending to have a double bar line ("||") after it. However, tweaking the MWE above in such a way that one would expect that to happen (\bar "||"\break\bar "|:"
) results in the same output. Removing the second bar and only putting the double bar before (or after) the break (eg. \bar "||"\break
) results in:
LilyPond doesn't seem to understand that it actually makes sense to have both bars (since I've manually inserted a break between the two measures).
Is there a way to force the bar engraver to output both bars?