Thank you. This has already helped very much. Do you also have an idea how to center it above a note? I can cheat a bit with extra-offset, but this isn't all-too accurate.
Best wishes, Stefan Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 18:13 +0100 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: > 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 > > /Mats > > stefankaegi wrote: > > Hi > > > > Is there a way to remove the dashed line of an ottava section so that > > only the sign "8va" is centered above a single note? > > > > Thank you > > Stefan > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > lilypond-user@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > \override _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user