Re: ottava spanner terminates at the end of the note, not the end of the bar

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Ken,

As far as I know Lilypond's behaviour here is pretty much the standard 
behaviour, as done by most Software, Editions and recommended by Gould. Thus 
doing ottava markings like this should be considered uncommon notation. 
Considering Tchaikovsky is not exactly modern music I think it is viable to say 
that in this case it is your original source that deviates from common and 
expected practise.

It is a known problem that while the ottava bracket looks like a line spanner 
it is not a line spanner and does not follow the same interface. This means 
that for properly implementing this you'd need to rewrite the ottava bracket 
engraver.

But the question is whether you really want to copy your source exactly, even 
replicating such cases of uncommon engraving style that might just have been 
the result of someone who is not versed in engraving using some software that 
does not handle such things correctly by default.

Cheers,
Valentin

14.05.2022 05:29:21 Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>:

> Hi;
> 
>   The ottava spanner terminates at the end of the note, not at the end
> of the bar.
> 
>   How to change this?
> 
>   Screenshots attached.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott