> > . How can I do the following easily? The accent is on *easily*, > > of course -- I could solve it with splitted voice and turning > > off the note heads, but this is uuuuugly. > > > > | | | > > O O O > > 8_| > > > > Having an ottava line for just a single bass note occurs quite > > frequently in piano music. > > I think the easiest approach is to use a markup text, and (not > spanrequest.)
Example, please. I *really* don't know how to create `8___|' as a markup text. In general I think it's problematic to have special cases for spanners which can't be handled by default. What about this: In case a single note gets both a `\spanrequest \start ...' and a `\spanrequest \stop ...', lilypond automatically creates a dummy grob positioned at the same place as the note (and having the same properties) which serves as the second item for the spanner. There are a *lot* of useful applications for this: . Ottava lines as described above . Pedal markers `Ped. *' for a single note. . l.v. ties, i.e. short ties which start at a given note but don't have an end note -- have a look into Debussy's piano preludes for examples. and so on. Werner _______________________________________________ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel