Re: text spanning

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Hugh,

> The following fails twice over; it leaves out the indicated text and
> ignores \textSpannerDown:
> […]
> Where did I screw up?

You made the tweaks to the TextSpanner in the main Voice context:

> <<
>   \new Staff \relative c'' {
>     \textSpannerDown
>     \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "let ring "

but then generated a TextSpanner in a new Voice context:

>     <<
>       \new Voice = "1" { \voiceOne \upper }
>       \new Voice = "2" { \voiceTwo \lower }
>    >>

I suggest instead that you either put the tweak in the variable  
itself (so it follows the generated TextSpanner around) or explicitly  
set the context of the tweak to the entire staff:

    \override Staff.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "let  
ring "

Hope this helps!
Kieren.