Displaced bassa when reducing size of 8

[Mats_Frendahl]

If I set “Ottava” to 80%

and use 8ba I get

(even it I set the ‘bassa’ to 80% too)

but in 100% I get

Using

gives

There seems to be some error when using the “bassa” option.

[Mark_Johnson]

Yep, this has been reported multiple times before. Daniel’s answer from 2019:

Music Symbol Editor - 8va Symbol

With apologies for the long delay before I’ve been able to find the time to look at this, I can now tell you what’s going on here. The problem is that the processor that draws octave lines makes an assumption that it will be able to draw the sequence of characters that make up the label at the start of the line using a single font style as a single string. It therefore disregards the scale factor defined in the Music Symbols editor and uses the font style size instead. It would be quite involved…

[benwiggy]

@Mats_Frendahl

There seems to be some error when using the “bassa” option.

Would anyone ever think that a line underneath the staff might be alta?

Traditional engravings from many leading publishers usually just used the 8 with no suffix. (Thus avoiding disputes about which suffix to use…)

[Mats_Frendahl]

I only use “8” with lines above or below. The ‘bassa’ case above happened when I tried to reduce the size of “8”. I was an observation only, which, apparently, had been reported before as @Mark_Johnson wrote. I don’t like the “ba”, “va” etc. Breitkopf used the ‘plain’ 8 in their old engravings, and so do I.

(I’m unsure what is most ‘classical’, dashed or dotted line. I guess dotted. There was some creative use of dotted lines in old Breitkopf editions with several break-points to ‘follow’ the music. Perhaps we will see that in a future Dorico version too.)