Re: vertical position of OttavaBracket

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Malte,

Well this is interesting. What you have shown is perfectly normal in 
many editions. Some editions line up the dash with the top of the va 
abbrev., and some on the baseline, and some in the middle. It's a matter 
of personal taste. Trying to force one way of typesetting is not in the 
general spirit of things. Also, the very old fashioned style of putting 
abbreviations as superscript, such as in English No, for number, where 
the o is superscripted looks dreadfully dated. But some like this. I 
don't, for one. The only case remaining for superscript abbreviations is 
the degree symbol in scientific context.

Provide the mechanism, sure, but don't prescribe a single appearance. I 
don't even think there is a default that would suit everybody, that's 
the point.


Andrew