Re: Ottava dash-fraction = #0.0 produces dots, not "no line"

[James]

On 15/09/14 22:56, Knute Snortum wrote:
>> I'm not top posting
> 
> The section on the 2.18 version of OttavaBracket...
> 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/ottavabracket
> 
> ...looks like this:
> 
>   dash-fraction (number):
>     0.3
>     Size of the dashes, relative to dash-period. Should be between 0.0 (no
> line) and 1.0 (continuous line).
> 
> But this code...
> %% --- Start
> \version "2.18.2"
> 
> \relative c,, {
>   \clef bass
>   \ottava #-1
>   \override Staff.OttavaBracket.dash-fraction = #0.0
>   c4 c c c
> }
> %% --- End
> 
> ...produces a dotted line, not "no line" as the documentations states.
>  Either the documentation or the behavior should be changed.
> 
> Knute Snortum
> (via Gmail)

I'd say this was more a bug in the perceived behavior than a
documentation one. So for now I will make a tracker using a label that
relects that.

Thanks

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4103


James