Re: ottavation

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On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:22 AM, James Lowe wrote:

> From: Peter O'Doherty [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 06 April 2011 12:21
> To: James Lowe
> Subject: Re: ottavation
> 
> Thanks for your reply, James. My question wasn't very clear - there are 
> numerous instances of ottava passages in the score, but not the whole score 
> so \clef "treble_8" is not suitable. It's not the ottava instruction as such 
> I want to use in the \layout { } but the format, i.e. just an "8" instead of 
> "8va".
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, James Lowe <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> )-----Original Message-----
> )From: address@hidden
> )[mailto:address@hidden On
> )Behalf Of Peter O'Doherty
> )Sent: 06 April 2011 09:51
> )To: lilypond-user
> )Subject: ottavation
> )
> )Hi,
> )
> )How can I adjust \set Staff.ottavation = #"8" to include it in the layout
> )section so it applies to the whole score?
> Can't you just use
> 
> \clef "treble_8" in your score
> 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#clef
> 
> Instead of using a \layout { } construct?
> 
> james

\score { \new Staff {
\relative c'' {
a b c d
}}
\layout { \context { \Score ottavation=#"8" } }}

Cheers,
MS