On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 2:14 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > > Le 02/12/2022 à 02:27, Joel C. Salomon a écrit : > > Piece of music I have in front of me puts the text "loco." above the > > first note after an ottava. See also the attached example, from > > <https://dictionary.onmusic.org/terms/17-8va>. > > > > The code below does not work, which makes me suspect I do not in fact > > understand the spanner interface. (I tried to adapt the example from > > crescendo spanners.) The less-elegant solution of "just use > > `\textMark` on the next note" works fine, but it feels like I'm > > missing something obvious. > > bound-details is in fact not a property attached to spanner-interface > (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/spanner_002dinterface) > but to the more specific line-spanner-interface > (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/line_002dspanner_002dinterface), > which OttavaBracket currently does not implement. Therefore, it's > expected that this doesn't work.
Thank you. > The primary purpose of text marks is to be aligned to bar lines > and to be performance indications for all staves (Text_mark_engraver > lives in Score by default and the marks are typeset above all > staves). Is a text mark really what you want here? I would just > use a text script: Looks like I'm going to have go through my code and better understand when to use which sort of text. I suspect some of my troubles with "why is this interfering with that?" will also be helped by that review. --Joel
