Re: what's the centred-text-spanner state of the art?

[David Nalesnik]

Hi Kieren,

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In the snippet below, I overload a tuplet bracket to create a spanner with a 
> centred text.
>
> I would like to use TextSpanner instead.
>
>   1. I need the text/markup centred.
>   2. I likely need the ability to have the spanner broken.
>   3. I only need one piece of text (n.b. I’ve seen a lot of code going around 
> for multiple text items).
>
> What is the current state of the art that will give me the most light-weight 
> solution?

You could use

https://github.com/davidnalesnik/lilypond-text-spanner-inner-texts

with markups for lines replacing the outer texts.

HTH,
David