Re: "Text spanner"-ish thing with text in the middle

[Nathan Ho]

On 2017-10-27 21:37, James Harkins wrote:
> I couldn't find this quickly: for an unmetered section, I'd like to
> indicate duration by tuplet-style brackets, only not a tuplet (no
> change to note durations) and with arbitrary text markup in the
> middle, e.g. if a tuplet goes
>
> :----- 3 -----:
>
> I'd like
>
> :--------------- 10" ---------------:
>
> TextSpanner seems to assume text at the beginning or end, but not the 
> middle.

hi james,

you can hijack an ordinary tuplet by setting the duration ratio to 1/1 
and modifying the text:

{
  \once \override TupletNumber.text = \markup \normal-text { "10\"" }
  \tuplet 1/1 {
    c'4 c'4 c'4 c'4
  }
}

(sorry for the double message, forgot to hit "reply all" on the first 
one it seems)


nathan