Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se> writes: > The general strategy is fairly well described in the LilyPond Learning > Manual, especially in Sect. 4.3.1 "Visibility and color of objects", > but also Sect. 4.1 and 4.2 are useful to get the basic concepts and to > learn how to find out what "object" to modify. > > Hmm, at second thought it wasn't that simple in this specific case, > since if you use the standard ways to make an object invisible, than > both the line and the "8va" will disappear. So, to find the answer you > have to navigate yourself from the Notation Reference, section on > Ottava to the Internal Reference for OttavaBracket and then click on > line-interface to learn how to make the line invisible: > > \override Staff.OttavaBracket #'dash-period = #-1
It is customary to write "loco" then when the ottavation ends. Probably easy to do this manually, though, but might be nice to have this work automatically, so that one can use the same source for different styles of ottavation. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user