Hello,
as a followup to the ly-user thread on ottavation bracket/fermata
stacking I noticed the following problem:
By default, OttavaBracket has a minimum-length of 1 and the text is
right-aligned to the first note in the range of the ottavation. Thus,
it's sometimes impossible to discern from which note on the ottava is
supposed to be applied. In short-ottava.ly (see attachment) the ottava
applies to both notes, in short-ottava-2.ly only to the second note. Yet
the output is identical.
My search for occurences of this issue in
<http://imslp.org/wiki/Etudes,_Op.25_%28Chopin,_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%29>
gave the five image examples in the attachment: The Peters (ex1-3),
Breitkopf and Bote&Bock (ex4) engravings all have only 8 as ottava text,
which considerably easies the problem, and except for Peters they didn't
use ottava for a single note in this case I found (see ex1 for Peters'
ottava on one note [excluding the grace note!] and 4 for the same note
in Bote&Bock without ottava).
Another possibility I recall from experience is leaving out the bracket
and placing "8va" centered or left-aligned on the note.
What do the authorities Gould and Ross say?
This is closely related to
<https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3690>, but I
decided to post it here in order to ask for your opinions and because
it's not only about alignment.
Best regards,
Simon
\version "2.19"
\paper { #(set-paper-size "a9" 'landscape) }
\header { tagline = ##f }
\relative {
\ottava #1 e''' f'
}\version "2.19"
\paper { #(set-paper-size "a9" 'landscape) }
\header { tagline = ##f }
\relative {
e'' \ottava #1 f''
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