Re: Ottava dashed lines -- disable

[Nathan]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Guy Stalnaker <address@hidden> wrote:

All,

After an hour reading through the user guides and the internal reference I had thought that this would disable the dashed line that follows the /ottava:

<code>

flute = {

\key e \minor

\global

% Music follows here.

\ottava #1

\override Staff.OttavaBracket #'dash-fraction = #0.0

gs''2 fs''4 e'' |

f''2 ef''2 | \time 3/4

</code>

Using this as the reference:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/internals/ottavabracket

<quote>

dash-fraction (number):

0.3

Size of the dashes, relative to dash-period. Should be between 0.0 (no line) and 1.0 (continuous line).

</quote>

I read that to say that 0.0 will result in no lines. This is not what happens. Of course, it is almost surely true that my understanding of how to do this is completely flawed. The dashes are much smaller, but they remain. I've tried multiple variants:

No Staff. #0.0 and #'0.0 but nothing doing?

Looks like an error in the docs. The best solution I can think of is to change the line style:

\new Staff {

  c''1

  \override Staff.OttavaBracket #'style = #'none

  \ottava #1

  c''1

  c''1

  \ottava #0

  c''1

}

Regards,

Nathan