Normally, bars (as well as double bars, final bars and repeat bars) are
drawn as a continuous line, starting for the bottom of the lower staff of the
lower instrument, and ending at the top of the upper staff of the upper
instrument. However, one may want to have discontinuous bars, that is, one
continuous bar for all the staffs of a unique instrument. This is done by
issuing the command
normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\sepbarrules. An example of this is given in the
normalshapemediumseriesANGESCAO (or normalshapemediumseriesANGESCAM) example; it has also been used in the
example of section .
The initial situation can be forced or restored by
normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\stdbarrules.