On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> OK, here 's my second take, I realize that I was a little confusing.
> Methinks that 8va braces are typesetting details, sort of a weird
> clefs if you like, and should be handled as such, so you enter the
> pitches like they should be played. In other words, I would advocate
> syntax like
>
> \spanrequest \start "8va"
> ...
> \spanrequest \stop "8va"
... and you can always use \transpose if you nevertheless want to
enter notes in a different octave than actually played. Looks good.
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