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Node:Text spanners, Previous:Tempo, Up:Expressive marks
Text spanners
Some textual indications, e.g. rallentando or accelerando, often extend
over many measures. This is indicated by following the text with a
dotted line. You can create such texts using text spanners. The syntax
is as follows:
\spanrequest \start "text" \spanrequest \stop "text"LilyPond will respond by creating a TextSpanner grob (typically in Voice context). The string to be printed, as well as the style is set through grob properties.
An application--or rather, a hack--is to fake octavation indications.
\relative c' { a''' b c a
\property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'type = #'dotted-line
\property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'edge-height = #'(0 . 1.5)
\property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'edge-text = #'("8va " . "")
\property Staff.centralCPosition = #-13
a\spanrequest \start "text" b c a \spanrequest \stop "text" }
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