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

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Valentin;

  Thank you for your insights.  I think I'll just drop this attempt to
reproduce exactly what the last transcriber/arranger tried to
accomplish (even though the person in question is an established
modern day composer, David Bruce).

  I appreciate both you and Aaron sharing your expertise.

Ken

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 2:54 AM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:
>
> 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