Halas, for StaffGroup, the trick works but the spanners are all at the top of the score, not above each StaffGroup.
Frédéric \version "2.12.0" stringendo = { \textSpannerUp \override StaffGroup.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "Stringendo" } \new Score << \new StaffGroup \with { \consists "Text_spanner_engraver" } << \new Staff { \new Voice \with { \remove "Text_spanner_engraver" } { \stringendo c'1 \startTextSpan \repeat unfold 4 { c' } c'\stopTextSpan } } \new Staff { \new Voice \with { \remove "Text_spanner_engraver" } { \stringendo c'1 \startTextSpan \repeat unfold 4 { c' } c'\stopTextSpan } } >> \new StaffGroup \with { \consists "Text_spanner_engraver" } << \new Staff { \new Voice \with { \remove "Text_spanner_engraver" } { \stringendo c'1 \startTextSpan \repeat unfold 4 { c' } c'\stopTextSpan } } \new Staff { \new Voice \with { \remove "Text_spanner_engraver" } { \stringendo c'1 \startTextSpan \repeat unfold 4 { c' } c'\stopTextSpan } } >> >> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user