>> please have a look at this example >> >> ``` >> { >> \set Score.skipBars = ##t >> \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "poco a poco tempo I" >> \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = "Tempo I" >> R1*4\startTextSpan | >> R1\stopTextSpan >> } >> ``` >> >> What is the equivalent of `\textLengthOn` for `TextSpanner` grobs so >> that the multi-measure rest gets properly stretched horizontally? > > Use > > \override TextSpanner.minimum-length = 30 > \override TextSpanner.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods
Thanks. Alas, doesn't work correctly for broken spanners: ``` \paper { line-width = 100\mm } { \set Score.skipBars = ##t \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "poco a poco tempo I" \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left-broken.text = "" \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = "Tempo I" \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right-broken.text = "" \override TextSpanner.minimum-length = 34 \override TextSpanner.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods R1*4\startTextSpan | \break R1*4\stopTextSpan | R1 | } ``` I also wonder whether there is a solution (or should be a solution) that doesn't need manual entering of a minimum length value that can only be found by trial and error. For example, wouldn't it be sensible to have the possibility of ``` \override TextSpanner.bound-details .left.extra-spacing-height = #'(-inf.0 . +inf.0) \override TextSpanner.bound-details .right.extra-spacing-height = #'(-inf.0 . +inf.0) ``` in combination with the `extra-spacing-width` property to get automatically the correct value(s)? Werner