Stewart Holmes wrote:
Might I recommend that the documentation be changed from:
The lengths to shorten a text-spanner on both sides, for example a
pedal bracket
to something like:
The lengths to shorten a text-spanner on both sides, for example a
pedal bracket, negative values lengthe
Hi, Stewart:
Ahh, cunning. A negative amount of shortening didn't occur to me.
I'm definitely an "out-of-the-box" thinker! =)
Might I recommend that the documentation be changed
Indeed.
The lengths to shorten a text-spanner on both sides, for example
a pedal bracket, negative values
Hi all,
As a matter of fact, and being quite a silly boy, I always try,
if I do want to _INCREASE_ something as the process deals with
_DECREASING_, to give the opposite instruction: so to say that
"LONGER" equals "LESS SHORTER"
Might be useful in many cases.
Jean-Charles
>
>Ahh, cunning. A
, for example a pedal
bracket, negative values lengthening the text-spanner.
Cheers,
Stewart
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From: "Kieren MacMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stewart Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi, Stewart:
Look at #'shorten-pair in the text-spanner-interface.
Cheers,
Kieren.
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Consider:
\once \override TextSpanner #'edge-text =
#'("CVIII" . "")
s8\startTextSpan s8 s4 s s\stopTextSpan
|
This makes the TextSpanner too far to the right for
my taste, so I move it with:
\override TextSpanner #'extra-offset = #'(-2 .
0)
However, the line of the spanner is now to
