Re: "loco" after ottava

[Joel C. Salomon]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 2:14 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 02/12/2022 à 02:27, Joel C. Salomon a écrit :
> > Piece of music I have in front of me puts the text "loco." above the
> > first note after an ottava.  See also the attached example, from
> > <https://dictionary.onmusic.org/terms/17-8va>.
> >
> > The code below does not work, which makes me suspect I do not in fact
> > understand the spanner interface. (I tried to adapt the example from
> > crescendo spanners.)  The less-elegant solution of "just use
> > `\textMark` on the next note" works fine, but it feels like I'm
> > missing something obvious.
>
> bound-details is in fact not a property attached to spanner-interface
> (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/spanner_002dinterface)
> but to the more specific line-spanner-interface
> (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/line_002dspanner_002dinterface),
> which OttavaBracket currently does not implement. Therefore, it's
> expected that this doesn't work.

Thank you.

> The primary purpose of text marks is to be aligned to bar lines
> and to be performance indications for all staves (Text_mark_engraver
> lives in Score by default and the marks are typeset above all
> staves). Is a text mark really what you want here? I would just
> use a text script:

Looks like I'm going to have go through my code and better understand
when to use which sort of text.  I suspect some of my troubles with
"why is this interfering with that?" will also be helped by that
review.

--Joel