Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

[Simon Albrecht]

On 22.09.2015 22:03, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> David Nalesnik wrote Monday, September 21, 2015 5:13 PM
>
> > I'm attaching a rewrite of the code which allows an easy mix of
> > markups/strings and interprets hyphens as connectors.
> > Now there's no need for a TextSpanner.connectors property.
> ... and hardly any need for the text-spanner-line-count, as it's easy
> to split up the text by system (since manual breaks are needed
> anyway to control the placement) like this:
>
> music = \relative {
> %  \override TextSpanner.text-spanner-line-count = #'(8 5)
>    \addTextSpannerText \lyricmode {
>      \markup \fontsize #1 \upright \smallCaps Abe:
>      "Say" "this" "over" "measures" "one" "and" "two"
>    }
>    <>\startTextSpan
>    a'4 a a a
>    a4 a a a
>    \stopTextSpan
>    \break
>    \addTextSpannerText \lyricmode {
>      "and" "this" "over" "measure" "three"
>    }
>    <>\startTextSpan
>    a4 a a a
>    \stopTextSpan
> }

I don’t quite understand your reasoning here; in my eyes it’s better to 
have only one TextSpanner and override its text-spanner-line-count than 
to split up the spanners. David N.s examples show the use of this in 
conjunction with manual breaks, which works fine.
> A function to split text at white space rather than having to surround
> each word with quotes would make this quite useable, I think.

The quotes are unnecessary anyway (except if we want to use \markup): we 
are in lyricmode. They only stayed there as an oversight.

> Certainly better than the way I did it in the NR.
>
> One problem remains: the text overlaps if there is not enough room,

A known limitation: note spacing stays as-is.

Yours, Simon