Re: Moving Ottava Text

[Shane Brandes]

\once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.direction = #DOWN \ottava #1

possible solution?

Shane

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Nick Baskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eluze,
>
> Apologies for being unclear! I've attached a minimal example that I hope
> will demonstrate what I mean. Notice how the "8va" text collides with the
> beam; I would like to move the "8va" text to the left to avoid this
> collision, and cannot figure out how to do so. Changing the text by adding a
> hspace adds space to the right of the text, but doesn't actually move the
> text itself.
>
> Thoughts?
> Nick
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Eluze <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Nick Baskin wrote
>> > I'm using 2.18.0, and I need to move the "8va" part of an ottava bracket
>> > to
>> > the left to avoid a collision with a beam. I've tried several things, to
>> > no
>> > avail: using \override Staff.OttavaBracket.X-offset has no effect as far
>> > as
>> > I can tell; using \override Staff.OttavaBracket.shorten-pair gives me
>> > control over the dashed line, but doesn't affect the "8va" text. I've
>> > looked at the other properties in the internals reference, but I can't
>> > find
>> > anything that looks promising. What do I have to override to make this
>> > change?
>>
>> as you're not very specific about the code I just hope this fits:
>>
>> \set Staff.ottavation = \markup { Text \hspace #4 }
>>
>> Eluze
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