Hi Robin, as said in the previous post, I tried outside-staff-padding too. And explained the issues in this case too. It does the job only *if reset*
http://lilybin.com/yb5u35/5 And this "0" reset forces the user to set that property before any calculation, which is not good. best, Paolo On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:22 PM Robin Bannister <r...@dabble.ch> wrote: > Paolo Prete wrote: > > > (A) + (B) > > make me suspect that the whole OttavaBracket interface is buggy. > > > It may not be exactly what you want, but I have the feeling that you > haven't tried outside-staff-padding. > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/outside_002dstaff_002dinterface > > > Cheers, > Robin >