Re: Two conflicting text spanners

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Neo,

> I was afraid that without any instructions the code in that thread would 
> fail, 
> but to my surprise it worked beautifully! Thank you!

You're welcome. From what I understand, the code has some issues, but it seemed 
like it would solve your use case.

> I wonder why this isn't coded into LP itself or provided as a snippet 
> with the software or in some repository (or am I mistaken?)

As far as I know, you're not mistaken: it's not in the codebase, nor provided 
as a snippet. I would imagine the limitations (see the email thread) are a 
sufficient obstacle to the functionality being considered for the main 
codebase… and even if not, the path to getting a patch created, submitted, 
reviewed, and accepted can be long and steep, and perhaps David N has 
higher-priority ways he is applying his Lilypond-based time at the moment.

I believe there is general agreement that all spanners should support ids, but 
there are evidently technical hurdles to making this happen.

Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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