Fwd: Long dynamic spanners

[Aberforth D - Instrumentals]

Hello,

Further to my yesterday's question I have figured out how to remove the repeated words, so that's 1 of 2 problems solved. I would still be very happy if somebody could show me how to get the dashes lined up correctly between words because I have to do that now manually in InkScape. Below is the amended script of my latest attempt.

Thanks,

Aberforth D

\version "2.20.0"
\language "english"

spanText =
  \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \etc

RH = \repeat unfold 19 { \relative c' { g8[ c e g c g e c] | } }

LH = \transpose c c, { \clef F \RH }

dyn = {
  \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left-broken text) = ##f
  s1\pp
  \spanText "cresc."
  s4.\startTextSpan s8 s2
  s1
  \spanText "poi"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "a"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "poco"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "a"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "poco"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "sino"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "al"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  s2.. s8\stopTextSpan
  s1\ff
}

\score { <<
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Staff <<
      \new Voice \RH
    >>
  \new Dynamics \dyn
    \new Staff <<
      \new Voice \LH
    >>
  >>
>> }
 
 

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Aberforth D - Instrumentals <aberforthg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 11:55
Subject: Long dynamic spanners
To: lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org>

Hello,

I'm having problems inserting a long dynamic spanner. It spans a total of about 16 bars starting with pp and ending with ff. In between I need dashes with regular spaced words: "cresc. poi a poco a poco sino al".

I know how to do this with only 2 words where the first word goes into the TextSpanner.bound-details.lef.text and the other goes into the .right.text property. But in this case I can't figure out how to do it. Below is my best attempt so far but I'm pretty sure I'm doing it the wrong way.

There are 2 problems with my approach:
1) The words are repeated after a line break;
2) The dashes don't always vertically line up with the next word.

Can somebody point me to a better way to get this done?

Many thanks in advance,

Aberforth D

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\version "2.20.0"
\language "english"

spanText =
  \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \etc

RH = \repeat unfold 19 { \relative c' { g8[ c e g c g e c] | } }

LH = \transpose c c,, { \clef F \RH }

dyn = {
  s1\pp
  \spanText "cresc."
  s4.\startTextSpan s8 s2
  s1
  \spanText "poi"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "a"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "poco"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "a"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "poco"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "sino"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  \spanText "al"
  s4. s8\stopTextSpan s2\startTextSpan
  s1
  s2.. s8\stopTextSpan
  s1\ff
}

\score { <<
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Staff <<
      \new Voice \RH
    >>
    \new Dynamics \dyn
    \new Staff <<
      \new Voice \LH
    >>
  >>
>> }

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