Re: Ottava brackets abuse

[Helge Kruse]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Helge,
>
> > thanks for hint to TextSpanner. I suspect ottava brackets to use TextSpanner. 
> > ;-)
>
> Clever... but too complicated in this case!  =)
>
> > I read the manual and searched at LSR. The sample in LSR looks
> > promisingly. But I don't get the expected results:
> > 1) The text is missing.
>
> The LSR example is outdated -- the syntax for TextSpanner has changed. In 
> particular, you should use
>
>     \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "Pincé"
>
> Read the manual section on TextSpanners for more information.
>
> > 2) The falling edge at the end is missing.
>
> I don't know this one off the top of my head -- perhaps the manual or another 
> list member will help?

My bad, I used an old documentation! Updated to new docs incl. 
lilypond-snippets.pdf and found, that the ending edge must be drawn. The 
complete example is attached.

Regards,
Helge

#(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)
\version "2.13.0"
\include "deutsch.ly"
\relative c' {
        \clef treble
        \time 2/4
        \key f \major

        \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "Pincé"
        \override TextSpanner #'dash-period = #1
        \override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #0.5
        \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details right text) =
                \markup { \draw-line #'(0 . -1) }

        d8 \startTextSpan e f d |
        f8 g a d \stopTextSpan |
        \revert TextSpanner #'style
}