Re: \ottava without bracket

[David Nalesnik]

Hi Harm,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2017-02-28 16:09 GMT+00:00 David Nalesnik <address@hidden>:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Andrew Bernard
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> This is excellent and useful. Also works, of course, when using something
>>> like \set Staff.ottavation = "8".
>>>
>>> Why not make this a snippet in LSR?
>>>
>>
>> Sure, I will look it at some more, and submit.
>>
>> Ideally, I'd like to add something to the codebase.
>>
>> Best,
>> David
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> I was working on a patch introducing ottavaText as a context-property.
> Maybe we could coordinate or at least avoid doing work twice.

I don't think this would conflict with anything I may try.  I'd just
be modifying the print function.
>
> I'll attach what I've done so far.
> It's not finished yet: I'd like to polish it and add entries in NR and
> Changes, probably worth a regtest as well.
>

Sure, go ahead!  It will be much more convenient storing texts in a
context property.

There's a comment in lily/ottava-bracket.cc about the desirability of
being able to switch between longer and shorter texts based on
available space:  Maybe that could be part of the overall plan.
>
> P.S.
> Did you notice
> https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5064/#23bb
> ?

No, I hadn't seen it.  Thanks for pointing this out to me!

I'm not certain what the best way to fix this is.  (I added a comment
to the issue tracker.)

Best,
David