Re: Ottava brackets formatting [was Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)]

[Neil Puttock]

2008/5/25 John Mandereau <address@hidden>:
> On 2008/05/24, Neil Puttock wrote:
>> Here's a patch to fix it; it's pretty straightforward.
>
> Yes it is, I also fixed it yesterday while being offline, I merged with
> your patch applied by Graham and pushed.

Sorry about that; I should have waited a bit before rushing in to fix it.

> While we're working on ottava brackets, what about changing default
> formatting, i.e. formatting "va" ("ma" respectively) in "8va" ("15ma"
> resp.) as superscript?  The attached PNG is a recompilation of the
> regtest after making the attached change.

They look quite promising, though I'm not sure whether I'd like them
as defaults. They'd look a bit better IMO if the brackets were aligned
with the top of the "va" and "ma"; in the case of the "vb", I'd prefer
a mirror image so that it's base-aligned.

Setting the alignment is tricky: since the OttavaBracket is basically
a tuplet bracket, it can't take advantage of the
line-spanner-interface to control bound-details.

FWIW, my main gripes with ottava brackets are the following:

- the defaults should be "8" and "15"
- it's a nuisance having to set ottavation every time you want to
change the text; it would be nice to have some method of setting them
globally (perhaps ottavation could take a list instead)
- as noted above, tweaking text alignment is problematic

Regards,
Neil