Re: strange octavation behaviour

[Simon Bailey]

hi phil, harm,

On 22 Aug 2013, at 15:40, Phil Holmes wrote:

The brackets end in the correct place, according to Elaine Gould - they should end after the "notehead".  The collision with the arpeggio is a bug.

i didn't have my copy of gould to hand when i wrote the mail and had the "wrong" definition in mind for the duration of the brackets. my bad.

On 22 Aug 2013, at 15:10, Thomas Morley wrote:

One possibility would be to use
\override Staff.OttavaBracket #'shorten-pair = #'(0.0 . -0.6)
This is the default. Try out different numbers instead of -0.6

this is the way i went after digging in the internals docs. :)

however, when "correctly" closing the ottava bracket:

----

  \override Staff.OttavaBracket.shorten-pair = #'(0 . -6.0)
  \ottava #1 <e, g c>2\arpeggio \ottava #0 r \clef bass |                              %38

----

the ottava sign still collides with the arpeggio.

if i "incorrectly" close the ottava bracket [after the following rest]:

----

  \override Staff.OttavaBracket.shorten-pair = #'(0 . 5.0)
  \ottava #1 <e, g c>2\arpeggio r \ottava #0 \clef bass |                              %38

----

i get the desired results (see attached png).

thanks for the pointers, regards,

sb

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