Re: Bow lift/Breath mark placement

[David Kastrup]

Evan Driscoll <address@hidden> writes:

> On 01/11/2013 11:24 PM, Nick Payne wrote:
>
>     \version "2.17.9" 
>     
>     \relative c'' { 
>     \override BreathingSign.text = \markup { \fontsize #5 {
>     \musicglyph #"comma" } } 
>     \override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #4 
>     c2. \breathe d4 
>     e8 d e f g4 \breathe g 
>     } 
>
> I had to do "\override BreathingSign #'text = ..." instead, as in
> Shane's solution, but I otherwise like the modification of the font
> size. Thank you both!
>
> (Perhaps the BreathingSign.text vs #'text is a 2.14 (my version) vs
> 2.17 issue? Whatever, doesn't matter much.)

2.17.6, actually.  It just takes so much less thinking to get it right
that people "pumping out a fast example" are prone to employ this in
favor of the "old" (still supported) syntax.  One gets used to it rather
fast.

-- 
David Kastrup