Re: Ottava brackets abuse

[Helge Kruse]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:

Hi Helge,

 > I need to write something that looks like ottava brackets, but must not
 > affect the pitch. With _#(set-ocatavation 1)_ I can create a bracket
 > that yields to _#(set-ocatavation 0)_ and I would also change the text
 > to i.e. _\set Staff.ottavation = #"Pincé"_ after several measures.
 >
 > But how do I keep the pitch for these notes?

Why can you not just use a TextSpanner?

Kieren,




1) The text is missing.
2) The falling edge at the end is missing.

What's wrong? (Complete example and result attached)


Regards,
Helge


#(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)
\version "2.13.0"
\include "deutsch.ly"
\relative c' {
	\clef treble
	\time 2/4
	\key f \major

	\override TextSpanner  #'edge-text = #'("Pincé" .  ",")
	\override TextSpanner  #'dash-period = #1
	\override TextSpanner  #'dash-fraction = #0.5
	\override TextSpanner  #'edge-height = #'(1 . -2)
	\override TextSpanner  #'thickness = #1
  
  	d8 \startTextSpan e f d |
	f8 g a d \stopTextSpan |
	\revert TextSpanner #'style
}

thanks for hint to TextSpanner. I suspect ottava brackets to use TextSpanner. ;-) I read the manual and searched at LSR. The sample in LSR looks promisingly. But I don't get the expected results:

span.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

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