Hello Harm! On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 1:47 PM Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi David, > > Am Sa., 2. Feb. 2019 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb David Nalesnik > <david.nales...@gmail.com>: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 2:13 PM Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Am Sa., 2. Feb. 2019 um 21:09 Uhr schrieb Thomas Morley > > > <thomasmorle...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > A bold workaround is to define the whole infrastructure for > > > > TextSpanners with new/renamed events (class and type), grobs, > > > > engravers and > > > > start/stop-commands. > > > > > > I forgot to point to a limitation > > > The provided 'text-spanner->text' doesn't care for line-breaks. > > To clarify, 'text-spanner->text' has nothing to do with multiple TextSpanners. > It's a stencil-override. special line-breaking behaviour is not coded, though. > > > There is this: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg105826.html > > Looks we have the same conversation every few years lol
:) > Your approach is far less invasive, so preferable. > > Not sure if anything needs to be updated. > Ideally, this sort of thing could be added to the code base to avoid the tangled history! I never went further with this because of the effort to rationalize spanners (GSoc?) I figured adding something like this would be like adding balconies onto balconies, or whatever the architectural analogy would be. > The fix mentioned here > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-11/msg00016.html > should be applied, then it still works. > > Though, I noticed a little problem here and in scheme-text-spanner > from our regtests, too: > Usually one can set the direction via direction-modifiers, i.e. for > _\startTextSpan the TextSpanner is printed below. This does not work. > > The direction may be catched in listener and applied to the grob in > process-music. > So I did in the attached file, not sure whether it's the best fix ... Thank you kindly--I now see all the colored lines in their irrelevant glory! I missed the change you mention and would have spent I don't know how much time looking for a solution. > > Thanks, > Harm Best, David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
