Thomas Morley wrote :
Overriding OttavaBracket.text fails for unknown reasons. Has to be
done after/before-line-breaking.
It fails for \propertyOverride Staff.OttavaBracket.text as well, which
prevents alterBroken from working.
\version "2.19.32" %% does not work \relative { \override Staff.OttavaBracket.text = #"foo" \ottava #-1 c1 d } %% does not work \relative { \propertyOverride Staff.OttavaBracket.text "foo" \ottava #-1 c1 d } %% works \relative { \override Staff.OttavaBracket.after-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text "foo")) \ottava #-1 c1 d } %% works \relative { \override Staff.OttavaBracket.before-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text "foo")) \ottava #-1 c1 d }
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