Re: textSpanner at arbitrary positions independent of music

2018-10-14 Thread Ryan Michael
I figured it out, I had to make a spacer notes in a seperate voice to cover the system break. e.g. % << \new Voice { \once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup { \upright \huge "molto rit." } s1\startTextSpan s1 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8\stopTextSpan %here is where the sy

Re: textSpanner at arbitrary positions independent of music

2018-10-14 Thread Ryan Michael
THank you Pierre, exactly what i was looking for. However, how can i turn off the left textSpan property if i want to span four bars which is broken over two systems, and i don't wish to repeat the "molto rit" for the left attribute of the span in the second system? On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 1:34 AM

Re: textSpanner at arbitrary positions independent of music

2018-10-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Ryan, Your example does not compile. How about putting the text into the sapnner ? Cf. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-text.html#text-spanners Cheers, Pierre Le dim. 14 oct. 2018 à 09:38, Ryan Michael a écrit : > Hi all > > So i have a scenario where I want a text