Re: \ottava without bracket

[David Nalesnik]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:08 AM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2/28/17, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Harm,
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Morley <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>> 2017-02-28 16:09 GMT+00:00 David Nalesnik <address@hidden>:
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Andrew Bernard
>>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is excellent and useful. Also works, of course, when using
>>>>> something
>>>>> like \set Staff.ottavation = "8".
>>>>>
>>>>> Why not make this a snippet in LSR?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sure, I will look it at some more, and submit.
>>>>
>>>> Ideally, I'd like to add something to the codebase.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> I was working on a patch introducing ottavaText as a context-property.
>>> Maybe we could coordinate or at least avoid doing work twice.
>>
>> I don't think this would conflict with anything I may try.  I'd just
>> be modifying the print function.
>>>
>>> I'll attach what I've done so far.
>>> It's not finished yet: I'd like to polish it and add entries in NR and
>>> Changes, probably worth a regtest as well.
>>>
>>
>> Sure, go ahead!  It will be much more convenient storing texts in a
>> context property.
>>
>> There's a comment in lily/ottava-bracket.cc about the desirability of
>> being able to switch between longer and shorter texts based on
>> available space:  Maybe that could be part of the overall plan.
>>
>
> Harm,
>
> I've attached the sort of patch I have in mind.  (Regtests and changes
> entry needed as well.)
>
> There's an example file to show how it works, including at line breaks.
>

(There's some Scheme stuff in the example file that I forgot to delete.)