Re: Text-spanner text repeated at start of line

[David Sumbler]

Thanks, both, for your help on this.

Regarding
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.left-broken.text = ##f

In section 3.1.122 of the internals reference, I see 'left.broken' as an
item in the 'bound-details' list but with no indication of what it does,
nor that 'left-broken.text' is possible and the values that could take.
How could I have found this out from the documentation?

As suggested, the thread linked to by Pierre seems to be a good bet.  It
has taken me some time to read through it all and try out the various
attached files.

I am quite happy to install version 2.19.27, so that I can get the
result I want (with dotted lines).  More likely I shall install
v2.19.30, which seems to be the latest.  Has any of the material
developed in connection with the "Text centralized above a TextSpan"
thread actually been incorporated into v2.19.30, or is that yet to come?

David




On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 22:54 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote:
> 2015-10-26 21:31 GMT+01:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider
> <address@hidden>:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > See :
> > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Text-centralized-above-a-TextSpan-td180601.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pierre
> >
> >
> > 2015-10-26 21:19 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler <address@hidden>:
> >>
> >> I want to use a marking such as "accel.-----al----Vivace".
> >>
> >> However, the following example does not do what I want, because the text
> >> is repeated at the start of each new line of music.  I just want the
> >> dotted line to continue without repetition of the text.
> >>
> >> \version "2.19.24"
> >>
> >> \relative {
> >>   \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "accelerando"
> >>   c''4\startTextSpan c c c | c c c c | c c c c \break |
> >>   c4 c c c\stopTextSpan |
> >>   \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "al"
> >>   c\startTextSpan c c c\stopTextSpan |
> >>   \tempo "Vivace" c c c c|
> >> }
> >>
> >> I tried using break-visibility, but as I expected this property does not
> >> have any with these objects.
> >>
> >> How can this be achieved?
> >>
> >> Also, it would be nice if the dotted line could be made to continue
> >> right up to the next piece of text, rather than leaving a gap.
> >>
> >> David
> 
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> for your use-case the thread Pierre linked is likely best you can do.
> 
> Though, for the record, you can exclude to repeat TextSpanner's text
> after line-break. Compare:
> 
> \relative {
>   \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "accelerando"
>   c''1\startTextSpan \break c c\stopTextSpan
> }
> 
> \relative {
>   \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "accelerando"
>   \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left-broken.text = ##f
>   c''1\startTextSpan \break c c\stopTextSpan
> }
> 
> 
> HTH,
>   Harm