At 06:56 on 17 Oct 2024, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 5:34 AM damianlegassick <[email protected]> > wrote:
>> Hi all >> >> When I use >> >> \set Staff.ottavation = "8vb" >> >> the v and the b are larger than with the plain: >> >> \set Staff.ottavationMarkups = #ottavation-ordinals >> >> any clues how to adjust this? >> >> thanks >> >> Damian >> > I had this same problem. To investigate it, I looked up > the definition of ottavation-ordinals in > ly/property-init.ly. I then created a new ottavation list > called ottavation-ordinals-b, with "va" and "ma" changed > to "vb" and "mb" for the negative ottavations. > I included the new ottavation list in my lilypond file, and set the > ottavationMarkups to my new list. Note that "8va" is an abbreviation of the single word "ottava", not (as is commonly stated) "ottava alta", and therefore should be used for both ottavations above and below the staff. "8vb" does not really exists, the position of the marking and bracket show which direction to ottavate. (However I realize that sometimes we need to engrave or replicate scores that are less than fully "correct"...) -- Mark Knoop
