Hi Valentin; Thank you for your insights. I think I'll just drop this attempt to reproduce exactly what the last transcriber/arranger tried to accomplish (even though the person in question is an established modern day composer, David Bruce).
I appreciate both you and Aaron sharing your expertise. Ken On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 2:54 AM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote: > > Hello Ken, > > As far as I know Lilypond's behaviour here is pretty much the standard > behaviour, as done by most Software, Editions and recommended by Gould. Thus > doing ottava markings like this should be considered uncommon notation. > Considering Tchaikovsky is not exactly modern music I think it is viable to > say that in this case it is your original source that deviates from common > and expected practise. > > It is a known problem that while the ottava bracket looks like a line spanner > it is not a line spanner and does not follow the same interface. This means > that for properly implementing this you'd need to rewrite the ottava bracket > engraver. > > But the question is whether you really want to copy your source exactly, even > replicating such cases of uncommon engraving style that might just have been > the result of someone who is not versed in engraving using some software that > does not handle such things correctly by default. > > Cheers, > Valentin > > 14.05.2022 05:29:21 Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi; > > > > The ottava spanner terminates at the end of the note, not at the end > > of the bar. > > > > How to change this? > > > > Screenshots attached. > > > > Thanks, > > Ken Wolcott
