Fwd: 8va

[Jule Slootbeek]

> in the meantime i found TextSpanners, but it gives me this error:
>
> Parsing...
> /Users/jslootbe/musc220/ass4/ass4.ly:16:27: error: parse error:
>                 [bes'! bes,!]\spanrequest
>                                           \start "text" [b'! b,!] 
> [bes'! bes,!] \spanrequest \stop "text"
>
> /Users/jslootbe/musc220/ass4/ass4.ly:16:78: error: parse error:
>                 [bes'! bes,!]\spanrequest \start "text" [b'! b,!] 
> [bes'! bes,!] \spanrequest
>                                                                        
>                       \stop "text"
>
> error:
> LilyPond failed on the input file (exit status 1).
>
> with this code:
>
> treble =
>         \notes
>         \relative c'' {
>                 \clef treble
>                 [b'!8 b,!] [bes'! bes,!] [b'! b,!]
>                 \property Staff.TextSpanner \set #'type = #'dotted-line
>                 \property Staff.TextSpanner \set #'edge-height = #'(0 . 1.5)
>                 \property Staff.TextSpanner \set #'edge-text = #'("8va " . "")
>                 \property Staff.centralCPosition = #-13
> 		[bes'! bes,!]\spanrequest \start "text" [b'! b,!] [bes'! bes,!] 
> \spanrequest \stop "text"
>                 
>         }
>
> is there no easier way to do this???
>
> TIA,
>
> Jule
>
> Jule Slootbeek
> address@hidden