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

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:30 AM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> The text-spanner-inner-texts.ly seemed too “heavy” for what I need… but it 
>> *does* work perfectly, and I’ll likely use many (or even all?!) of its 
>> superpowers at some point in my score.
>
> Yes, it's a lot of code.  Part of the reason that it's so long,
> however, it that it is built on a rewrite of ly:line-spanner::print in
> Scheme.  So all of the default functionality is there: you can use
> ordinary text spanners with no loss of functionality.  (Though I may
> need to add in arrows, IIRC.)  It's conceived as an enhancement which
> could replace the default print function, because any addition of
> multi-text spanners to the code base should handle them without the
> need for competing stencil functions.
>


Well, after taking a look at it,  I see it does use a "competing
stencil function," but the goal is complete integration.

David