Re: Breathing mark and caesura

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca> writes:

> Hi Andrew,
>
>> Ah. It's a matter of positioning. That is not entirely obvious to me.
>> Seems slightly different to how other overrides work.
>
> 1. I haven't investigated, but \breathe must (e.g.) be attached to a
> <> or something, so that it has "its own moment".

No?

\breathe is not a post-event.  It's a standalone event of zero duration,
so its moment of time is that of whatever follows, not what precedes it.

>
> 2. Whenever I find an override that doesn't work, I try repositioning
> — 95% of the time, that fixes the problem.
>
>> why can't one use \once for the override?
>
> One can… if one positions it correctly. ;)
>
> \version "2.21.2"
> {
>   c''4 \breathe c''
>   c''
>   \once \override BreathingSign.text = \markup {
>     \musicglyph "scripts.caesura.straight"
>   }
>   \breathe
>   c''
>   \breathe
> }
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
> ________________________________
>
> Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his)
> ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
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>
>
>

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David Kastrup