Re: Is it possible to insert a "break" in a ottava bracket?

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> On 08.09.2017 22:58, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> at = #(define-music-function (time event music)
>>>    (ly:duration? ly:music? ly:music?)
>>> "Place @var{event} at a relative duration @var{time} in relation
>>> to @var{music}."
>>>    #{ \context Bottom << { \skip $time <>$event } $music >> #})
>> Someone remind me: was there a reason we did not make this part of
>> LilyPond proper?  I think there was but I cannot remember it.  It's
>> coming up time and again...
>
> I think one reason is the lack of a really satisfying name –
> personally, I like the way
> \after 4 \< c2
> translates to
> ‘after a quarter note duration, insert a hairpin on the note c2’
> but I don’t really think that’s good enough for Lily proper, namely
> because it’s too unspecific.

It's missing the relation to the c2: \after 4 \< c2 sounds like

\skip 4 <>\< c2

to me.  \within does not really work since c2 has to come last or
placing several elements will become completely awkward syntactically.

Maybe we really should just bikeshed this one as "at" and be done.

-- 
David Kastrup