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

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:27 AM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>

(See the last example for a bracket illustration.)