Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes:
> Hi Andrew,
>
>> Ah. It's a matter of positioning. That is not entirely obvious to me.
>> Seems slightly different to how other overrides work.
>
> 1. I haven't investigated, but \breathe must (e.g.) be attached to a
> <> or something, so that it has "its own moment".
No?
\breathe is not a post-event. It's a standalone event of zero duration,
so its moment of time is that of whatever follows, not what precedes it.
>
> 2. Whenever I find an override that doesn't work, I try repositioning
> — 95% of the time, that fixes the problem.
>
>> why can't one use \once for the override?
>
> One can… if one positions it correctly. ;)
>
> \version "2.21.2"
> {
> c''4 \breathe c''
> c''
> \once \override BreathingSign.text = \markup {
> \musicglyph "scripts.caesura.straight"
> }
> \breathe
> c''
> \breathe
> }
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
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>
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>
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