Re: Short TextSpanners do not follow beam slope

[Neil Puttock]

On 1 September 2010 04:33, Nick Payne <address@hidden> wrote:
> When I look at commercially engraved guitar scores that I have, short text
> spanners, such as string number indications, follow the slope of a beam. If
> there are several of them along a sloping beam, they descend or ascend along
> with the beam so that there is a constant spacing between each spanner and
> the beam. Lilypond doesn't do this - if the stems are up, the calculation of
> the vertical height of all spanners seems to be relative to the highest part
> of the beam, even though some spanners are only above a lower part of the
> beam. If the stems are down, then the spanners descend or ascend to be the
> same spacing from the noteheads:

You could try tweaking the slope via

'(bound-details right Y)

though you'll also have to force the spanners closer to the beams to
compensate for the inflexible skylines.

With a bit of clever coding,it might be possible to generate the
correct bound-details informatio automatically (the code for tuplet
bracket sloping might provide some inspiration).

Cheers,
Neil