Re: Breathing mark and caesura

[Andrew Bernard]

Ah. It's a matter of positioning. That is not entirely obvious to me.
Seems slightly different to how other overrides work. And as a follow
up question related to this positioning matter, why can't one use
\once for the override? At least, doing that does not work for me.

Andrew

On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 22:29, Kieren MacMillan
<kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> This works for me:
>
> \version "2.21.2"
> {
>   c''4 \breathe
>   c''
>   \override BreathingSign.text = \markup {
>     \musicglyph "scripts.caesura.straight"
>   }
>   c'' \breathe
>   c''
>   \revert BreathingSign.text \breathe
> }
>