Re: Automatic ottava handling

[Malte Meyn]

There is a pitch-dependent staff switching automatism in LilyPond (I 
don’t know how it works but you can have a look at piano/harp section in 
the notation reference) so I think what you are asking for should at 
least not be impossible.

Am 05.10.2014 um 17:52 schrieb David Bellows:
> This is probably asking a lot, but is there a way to have ottava markings
> used automatically? It sounds like a complicated function since you'd also
> want it to be able to span consecutive notes but being able to specify when
> (as in how many ledger lines above the staff) it would kick in would be
> really nice. The project I'm working on automatically generates Lilypond
> files so I can't do this manually. I have given some thought as to how I
> would do it in my software but was hoping someone else had already tackled
> the problem from a Lilypond perspective.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Bellows
>
>
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