input/new/creating-text-spanners.ly

   1 \version "2.11.62"
   2
   3 \header {
   4   lsrtags = "expressive-marks, text, tweaks-and-overrides"
   5   texidoc = "The @code{\\startTextSpan} and @code{\\stopTextSpan}
   6 commands allow the creation of text spanners as easily as pedal
   7 indications or octavations.  Override some properties of the
   8 @code{TextSpanner} object to modify its output."
   9
  10   doctitle = "Creating text spanners"
  11 }
  12
  13 \paper { ragged-right = ##f }
  14
  15 \relative c'' {
  16   \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = #"bla"
  17   \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'right #'text = #"blu"
  18   a4 \startTextSpan
  19   b4 c
  20   a4 \stopTextSpan
  21
  22   \override TextSpanner #'style = #'line
  23   \once \override TextSpanner #'bound-details
  24     #'left #'stencil-align-dir-y = #CENTER
  25   a4 \startTextSpan
  26   b4 c
  27   a4 \stopTextSpan
  28
  29   \override TextSpanner #'style = #'dashed-line
  30   \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text =
  31     \markup { \draw-line #'(0 . 1) }
  32   \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'right #'text =
  33     \markup { \draw-line #'(0 . -2) }
  34   \once \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'right #'padding = #-2
  35
  36   a4 \startTextSpan
  37   b4 c
  38   a4 \stopTextSpan
  39
  40   \set Staff.middleCPosition = #-13
  41   \override TextSpanner #'dash-period = #10
  42   \override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #0.5
  43   \override TextSpanner #'thickness = #10
  44   a4 \startTextSpan
  45   b4 c
  46   a4 \stopTextSpan
  47 }