Re: Ritardando and accelerando

[Noeck]

Hi Peter,

just to give you some alternatives at hand:
1. The override can be defined earlier if you want the music part of your file
to look cleaner/shorter.
2. If you do not need/want the spanner lines, a simple text ^"..." does the 
trick.
3. This text (as well as the spanner text) can be formatted, e.g. with italics.


\version "2.18.2"

rit = { \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup { \upright
"rit." } }

\relative {
  % use the definition above
  \rit
  b1\startTextSpan c
  e,\stopTextSpan
  % simple annotation without spanner
  c'^"rit."
  % same in italics
  c^\markup \italic "rit."
}


HTH,
Joram


PS: Wouldn’t it be nice to have these commands (or similar):
b1\startText "rit." c e,\stopText