Barline

How do I make only the First Barline thicker in a hymn?

Select the barline, open the Barlines popover with Shift+B, and type thick.

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Please refer to the image.

I think what you want is in Engraving Options > Brackets and Braces:

  • Set the bracket end design to “Horizontal line”
  • Set the bracket distance from systemic barline to 0
  • Set the additional vertical protrusion to 0

Result:

(You would think that you’d want to set the bracket end design to “None”, but for me that produces a barline which has a slight vertical protrusion, despite setting that to 0.)

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I am interested to know, where this was used in hymn settings. Do they exist in 19th century hymn books? I personally find this looks rather ugly, but one might need to see a whole setting.

Thank you