Customizing ottava text

2017-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, is it really true that the text of the OttavaBracket can't be customized? All I could find was the doc snippet http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/snippets/text#text-ottava-text which suggests to manually set Staff.ottavation after the \ottava command. With this I created a functi

Re: Customizing ottava text

2017-02-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > is it really true that the text of the OttavaBracket can't be customized? \version "2.19.48" \language "english" ottTest = \once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.before-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text "testing")) { \ottTest \ottava #1 c'' } > I can

Re: Customizing ottava text

2017-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.02.2017 um 21:55 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Urs, > >> is it really true that the text of the OttavaBracket can't be customized? > \version "2.19.48" > \language "english" > > ottTest = > \once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.before-line-breaking = > #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-proper

Re: Customizing ottava text

2017-02-15 Thread Noeck
Hi Urs, yes, I think you can't set the text. But you can redefine the \ottava function and still use the Staff.ottavation to do the work behind the scenes. Here is my ottava function. It is extended to more than 2 octaves and has a custom text. I always wanted a true dotted line (round dots), but

Re: Customizing ottava text

2017-02-15 Thread tisimst
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Re: Customizing ottava text

2017-02-15 Thread Noeck
Hi, Am 15.02.2017 um 23:44 schrieb tisimst: > \set Staff.ottavation = That's what the code does, I posted before. It just does it depending on the ottavation. It does these two things: #(make-music 'OttavaMusic 'ottava-number octave)% = \ottava \set Staff.ottavation = ...

Re: Customizing ottava text

2017-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, as I got quite a few similar responses I'll reply at once. All the suggestions that manually set Staff.ottavation don't work because I want something that can be defined in a stylesheet without the user having to change the music content (by manually setting the ottava text for each case). S

Re: Customizing ottava text

2017-02-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-02-15 21:06 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska : > Hi all, > > is it really true that the text of the OttavaBracket can't be > customized? All I could find was the doc snippet > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/snippets/text#text-ottava-text > which suggests to manually set Staff.ottavation after