Re: Automatic ottava handling

[David Bellows]

OK, I've now played around with it and it works very nicely and will be easy to integrate into my software. You've already put a lot of work into this so I hate to point out any of my peculiar preferences, but just in case you feel like putting even more time into it here they are:

1. Add the 15va/vb marking as well.

2. I'm not sure what standard practice is but you'll see in the score that my software produces it does not extend the ottava marking over rests. My music tends to have a lot of rests (a consequence of how it automatically changes staves) so it has a big effect on the overall look.

3. Change the text. In my score I just use "8" and "15" which given how crowded the score gets at times makes a big difference. 

My version is the Piano_Standard.pdf whereas yours is auto-ottavate.pdf

Thanks again for the work you've put into this!

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:20 PM, David Bellows <address@hidden> wrote:

That is amazing work! I don't have the time to experiment with it right now but I will do so tonight and let you know tomorrow the results. But based on your example this looks like it will be perfect. I think the negative numbers for the bassa is a good choice as that was what I was imagining in the first place.

Thanks for all your work on this!

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 9:05 PM, David Nalesnik 

I'll look into fixing up build-new-elts so there won't be so much duplication of code.  Then it will be a lot cleaner to deals with bassas, 

OK, now it will provide automatic bassas as well.

The function \ottavate now takes two numbers, one for the upper threshold and another for the lower.  I decided to specify the lower threshold in negative numbers, but that could be changed.

If you want to turn off one or the other, you can just pick a number out of range.  (So, for example, you can ensure no bassas with treble clef.)

Let me know how this works for you!

Enjoy,

David

 

Piano_Standard.pdf
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auto-ottavate.pdf
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