Hi Mark Technically wrong yes, but not so uncommon anymore. I don't use vb myself but am interested in why I can't get the text size to match exactly thanks Damian On 17 Oct 2024, at 12:17,
Mark Knoop <m...@opus11.net> wrote: At 06:56 on 17 Oct 2024, Carl Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 5:34 AM damianlegassick <damianlegass...@mac.com> wrote: Hi all When I
use \set Staff.ottavation = "8vb" the v and the b are larger than with the plain: \set Staff.ottavationMarkups = #ottavation-ordinals any clues how to adjust this? thanks Damian I
had this same problem. To investigate it, I looked up the definition of ottavation-ordinals in ly/property-init.ly. I then created a new ottavation list called ottavation-ordinals-b, with
"va" and "ma" changed to "vb" and "mb" for the negative ottavations. I included the new ottavation list in my lilypond file, and set the
ottavationMarkups to my new list. Note that "8va" is an abbreviation of the single word "ottava", not (as is commonly stated) "ottava alta", and therefore should
be used for both ottavations above and below the staff. "8vb" does not really exists, the position of the marking and bracket show which direction to ottavate. (However I realize
that sometimes we need to engrave or replicate scores that are less than fully "correct"...) -- Mark Knoop
