Kieren, Thanks for chiming in. I don’t really follow, though. I poked around a bit and see that left/right-broken seems to be associated with line-spanners. I thought I was dealing with a text spanner.
-David ----- Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi David, > > You need to adjust the left-broken and right-broken parameters. > > Hope that helps! > Kieren. > > > On Mar 20, 2021, at 1:03 PM, bobr...@centrum.is wrote: > > > > Somewhere in the docs I ran across this structure (v2.20 or v2.22). I have > > not been able to find it again: > > > > \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup{\dynamic "mf" > > "dim."} > > \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = \markup{ \dynamic "pp" } > > \override TextSpanner.breakable = ##t > > > > An example showed how this produced a mezzo-forte with 'dim.' at > > \startTextSpan and after the line break the end note with 'pp' at > > \stopTextSpan. > > > > What I get is "mf dim."......'pp' > > > > line break > > > > 'mfdimpp' all jammed together and overlapping under the note after the > > break. > > > > Is such a thing possible as in the above code or do I need to work around > > this some other way? > > > > -David > ________________________________ > > Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) > ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info > ‣ email: kie...@kierenmacmillan.info >