Reinhold Kainhofer <reinh...@kainhofer.com> writes: > Am Freitag, 20. November 2009 18:47:11 schrieb David Kastrup: > >> 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. > > Hmm, OttavaBrackets are very special... They mimic the behavior of other > spanners, but actually implement everything themself. So, none of the ways to > tweak line spanners can be used. In particular, for a normal spanner (e.g. a > trill spanner etc.), you could simply override the right text of the bound- > details alist and the text would be printed at the right edge of the spanner: > \override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'right #'text = #"blah" > f\startTrillSpan f f f f f f f \stopTrillSpan f > > Unfortunately, this does not work for ottava brackets, since they are not > spanners like the other grobs ...
Hm. Sounds like somebody took a shortcut in the design that might be worth reexamining. Actually, 8va markers tend to get folded into accordion register symbols. So I have some interest to get this functionality a bit more universal. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
