Overriding OttavaBracket.text fails for unknown reasons. Has to be done after/before-line-breaking. It fails for \propertyOverride Staff.OttavaBracket.text as well, which prevents alterBroken from working.
\version "2.19.32" %% does not work \relative { \override Staff.OttavaBracket.text = #"foo" \ottava #-1 c1 d } %% does not work \relative { \propertyOverride Staff.OttavaBracket.text "foo" \ottava #-1 c1 d } %% works \relative { \override Staff.OttavaBracket.after-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text "foo")) \ottava #-1 c1 d } %% works \relative { \override Staff.OttavaBracket.before-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text "foo")) \ottava #-1 c1 d } Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond