Re: Ottava overlapping fermata

[James]

On 20/08/14 13:40, Mark Knoop wrote:
> At 13:00 on 20 Aug 2014, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 21:14 19/08/2014 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote:
> > > 2014-08-19 19:54 GMT+02:00 Alf Storm:
> > > > Is there any way to tweak the ottava height? Or is this a bug I
> > > > should report?
> > > I don't know what Elaine Gould says about this particular case.
> > > Personally, I'd move the fermata : ...
> > She disagrees, I'm afraid:
> > "Place the pause further from the stave than other markings stacked
> > on the notehead, except for the octave sign" (p.188). Her example has
> > a tenuto mark, an accent, a fermata and an ottava bassa - in that
> > order.
> This is rather missing the point - lilypond already does the correct
> ordering in normal circumstances. The (potential?) bug is that when a
> cross-staff beam is involved, the ottava sign collides with the fermata.
There are dozens of 'cross staff' collision trackers still open (some 
abandoned) I expect it is one of these.

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=2&q=cross+staff&sort=patch&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Stars+Owner+Patch+Needs+Summary+Modified&x=type&cells=tiles

James