Re: Adjusting OttavaBracket parameters (was "Re: can't seem to apply tweaks on tweaks")

[Thomas Morley]

2016-01-01 22:20 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:
> Hi David N,
>
>> Strange that
>> \alterBroken text #'(() "") Staff.OttavaBracket
>> doesn't have an effect here (substitute this line for the call of \foo 
>> above).
>
> Exactly. This discovery (which I made some days ago) further added to my 
> frustration about not being able to predict what is or is not likely to work 
> in Lilypond.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.


\alterBroken is a tool meant to facilitate addressing and tweaking
parts and properties of spanners. You may call it syntactic sugar ;)
It needs investigation why it fails with OttavaBracket.text

Nevertheless, the  basic route of my coding is covered by

Extending 2.8 Difficult tweaks
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/extending-big-page#difficult-tweaks

and it works.


Cheers,
  Harm