Re: Two spacing bugs: tuplets, staves...plus: ottava/8va parentheses on continuation?

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 13 March 2006 09.40, Marcus Macauley wrote:
> 2. The staves are spaced unevenly. 

This is intentional.

All staves, except those inside PianoStaff contexts, are spaced individually. 
The space between two PianoStaff staves is always the same; this has to do 
with the \change command.

If you really want the same distance between every two staves, you can tweak 
your contexts to do this. (look at engraver-init.ly to see how PianoStaff 
does it)

> 3. that the ottava (8va) bracket, when it continues on the second line,
> should really be parenthesized. 

Do you mean the text should be "(8va)" instead of "8va"?

I'm not familiar with that parenthesized notation; do you have any scans of 
well-engraved scores which do it?

> Maybe I should have broken this up into several messages, but I'm not very
> familiar with the bug reporting procedures and not certain whether these
> bugs or possible features are known, or if I've missed something. If I
> should have posted this differently, please advise me.

The best way to file bug reports, is to send one message for each bug, where a 
minimal example, which demonstrates the problem, is presented. "Minimal" 
usually means <= 2 bars; I checked (3) above using the following example:

{
  #(set-octavation 1) % begin 8va bracket
  c1 \break c1 
  #(set-octavation 0) % end 8va bracket
}

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Erik Sandberg
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