Hi Harm, > \alterBroken is a tool meant to facilitate addressing and tweaking > parts and properties of spanners. You may call it syntactic sugar ;) > It needs investigation why it fails with OttavaBracket.text
And, my [admittedly non-exhaustive] testing has just shown, OttavaBracket.shorten-pair. (When this score is out the door, I’ll do a test file to see which OttavaBracket properties *are* adjustable via \alterBroken.) > Nevertheless, the basic route of my coding > […] it works. That is greatly appreciated, as it gets me a little closer to being able to complete my current engraving and send it off to the performers who are waiting patiently for it. Thanks, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
