Re: ottava: remove dashed line

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Freitag, 20. November 2009 18:47:11 schrieb David Kastrup:
>
>> It is customary to write "loco" then when the ottavation ends.
>> Probably easy to do this manually, though, but might be nice to have
>> this work automatically, so that one can use the same source for
>> different styles of ottavation.
>
> Hmm, OttavaBrackets are very special... They mimic the behavior of other 
> spanners, but actually implement everything themself. So, none of the ways to 
> tweak line spanners can be used. In particular, for a normal spanner (e.g. a 
> trill spanner etc.), you could simply override the right text of the bound-
> details alist and the text would be printed at the right edge of the spanner:
>   \override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'right #'text = #"blah"
>   f\startTrillSpan f f f f f f f \stopTrillSpan f
>
> Unfortunately, this does not work for ottava brackets, since they are not 
> spanners like the other grobs ...

Hm.  Sounds like somebody took a shortcut in the design that might be
worth reexamining.

Actually, 8va markers tend to get folded into accordion register
symbols.  So I have some interest to get this functionality a bit more
universal.

-- 
David Kastrup