RE: Ottava spanner too long just before a grace note

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Knute:

 

I placed \acciaccatura s8 before the r4 and the 8va shortened. Perhaps this does what you want.

 

Mark

 

From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Knute Snortum
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 1:45 PM
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Subject: Ottava spanner too long just before a grace note

 

I have a piece of music that all finished except that I have a problem with the ottava spanner for low a in the bass.  It seems to want to span the grace note that's in the next measure, I assume because the grace note is realized by backing up from the beat it's on.  My example file isn't "tiny", but it's not huge either.  I don't know if people prefer inline files or attachments when they are big, so I attached the file.

 

I've tried several things to make make the spanner smaller, but I can't seem to do it without messing other things up.  There's a lot happening in that measure, including a tied cross-staff chord.  There may be a better solution for that that will make the ottava problem easier to solve.

 

The last measure in the example is how the first measure should look.

 

TIA

 

Knute Snortum

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