Hi Malte, Love this initiative — my ottava markups are heavily tweaked (and hacked!) in order to get something acceptable.
> I’m not sure how a easily changeable vertical alignment should be done best: > The easiest solution I found would be to remove the line > text.align_to (Y_AXIS, CENTER); > from ottava-bracket.cc (line 179 in current master). This way using the > \general-align or \vcenter markup function the alignment can be done while > setting the ottavationMarkups. Only problem: \set-ting Staff.ottavation to a > simple string or not explicitely aligned markup will lead to a bottom > alignment instead of center and I don’t know whether it would be possible to > write a convert-ly rule that covers such cases. > > Another solution would be a simple grob property for that alignment. First I > thought one could simply use a direction like #UP, #CENTER, #DOWN but that > would not cover cases of ottava bassa if you want f. e. top-aligned 8va and > bottom-aligned 8ba. > > Any thoughts on that? Can it be a pair? (#UP . #UP) for top-aligned +s and -s, (#DOWN . #DOWN) for bottom-aligned +s and -s, and (#UP . #DOWN) for top-aligned +s and bottom-aligned -s, etc. (Note: It seems overkill, to me, to support e.g. 8va #UP and 15ma #DOWN, but that *would* be the most configurable…) Best, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
