Re: Text spanner text in the middle

[David Kastrup]

David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Malte Meyn <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> This is a topic that has come up fairly often and is well worth an
> enhancement.
>
> I wonder about the difficulties caused by line breaks, though.  Also,
> evenly spaced texts is a start, but it won't be long before there is a
> request for individual positioning, tweaking of the component texts :)

Just put them in some variant of Lyrics context that diverts all its
syllables to a text spanner.  That should give you lots of flexibility
for shooting yourself in the foot.

-- 
David Kastrup