David, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:48 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com> writes: > > > (As an aside: I must say that David's suggestion of using lyrics > > produces miraculous results without the hundreds and hundreds of lines > > of new code! Don't want a connector line? Don't write a hyphen. > > Etc.) > > Actually, we might have had some miscommunication. I was not really > suggesting using a lyrics context, just \lyricsmode as a user interface. > The idea was more or less to pick the music expression apart and then > let your code do the work. > > OK, I see. Using \lyricmode would be a user-friendly way to specify markups/strings, connectors/no connectors, and relative spacing of texts through attached durations (making the use of spacers--somewhat awkward to handle--unnecessary). > However, (re-)using engravers for the "picking apart" bit in a context > without its own vertical axis group might be an interesting option. > Want several text spanners? Use several contexts. I'll need to experiment a bit before I can say I understand! Thanks, David
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