Re: Text spanner text in the middle

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 14.08.2015 um 13:11 schrieb Malte Meyn:
> Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
> > Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, 
> > although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware 
> > that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate a 
> > repeat structure to lilypond, so it is architecturally incorrect, 
> > which would be grounds for rejecting such a request for enhancement. 
> > But apart from repeats, I have many uses for text centred in 
> > spanners, where the semantics are perfectly OK.
> One could go even further and have text spanners with not only two or, 
> with centered text, three but an arbitrary number of texts evenly 
> distributed over the length of the spanner.
+1
> \override TextSpanner.texts = #("poco" "a" "poco" "stringendo")
>
> And then one could also add the possibility to specify where a dashed 
> lines/hyphens should be.
>
> \override TextSpanner.texts = #("poco" "a" "poco" "strin" "gen" "do")
> \override TextSpanner.hyphens = #(#f #f #f #t #t)
I’d suggest
\override TextSpanner.spread-text = { al -- lar -- gan -- do }
Your example should probably be displayed along the lines of either
‘po - - co _ _ a _ _ po - - co _ _ strin - - gen - - do’
or even
‘po - - co - - a - - po - - co - - strin - - gen - - do’.
> Same for DynamicLineSpanners (poco a poco crescendo).
>
> Maybe we can think a bit about the details and then have a feature 
> request (for centered text or for more texts or both).
Good idea.
Yours, Simon