On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 7:55 PM Jean Abou Samra (@jeanas) <git...@mg.gitlab.com> wrote: > > Jean Abou Samra commented on a discussion on > Documentation/en/notation/notation-appendices.itely:
>[about InstrumentName spanners] > > 3289 > > +@strong{Spanners} are a class of grobs that span up something in > > 3290 > > +the horizontal direction; in most cases they contain the word > > On a personal note, I find the use of spanners misleading for these and would > very much like to see them converted to breakable items like bar numbers, > etc. That would be the main part Converting them to breakable items adds 3 grobs per break-point, so it has a certain cost. Since these items don't participate much in the formatting process, there is little benefit to compensate for the cost. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen