Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe I don't understand, but to me this seems contradictory:
>
> > There are two ways the 8ve could be handled. The can be entered as
> > being in the octave they are written, and then performed an octave
> > higher/lower,
>
> I take it, you would enter
>
> \octavate +1 { a' }
>
> which, after parsing results in the pitch for a''. So, you don't
> perform an octave higher/lower, you state the exact octave, but
> partly by giving an \octavate command. The `octavate' then takes
> care of the 8va bracket.
Hmm... That makes sense to me. This is, I suppose, what I meant
originally, but you have managed to state it more precisely.
--
Michael Duggan
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
