Re: never seen barring indications below staff

[Ralph Palmer]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Eluze <address@hidden> wrote:

> I wonder why in
>
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/guitar#indicating-position-and-barring
> LilyPond shows the indication /below/ the staff - I've never seen that
> before.
>
> in the same snippet the text spanner line looks quite loose and ends above
> the center of the last spanned note - maybe the TextSpanner default
> settings
> are good for "normal" texts, but in the case of barring spanners I would
> prefer a tighter line with a distinct ending mark:
>
> [see attachment]  barring.png
> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n138311/dampened-notes.png>
>
> \relative c {
>   \clef "treble_8"
>   b16 d g b e
>   \once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup {"XII"
> \hspace #.4 }
>   \once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text) = \markup {
> \draw-line #'(0 . -.5) }
>   \once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.padding) = #-.65
>   \once \override TextSpanner.dash-fraction = #.4
>   \once \override TextSpanner.dash-period = #1.3
>   g16 \startTextSpan
>   b16 e g e b g \stopTextSpan
>   e16 b g d
> }
>
> what do you think?!
> Eluze


Greetings, Eluze and other LilyPonders -
I've submitted the spanner details as a feature request, issue 3055 :
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3055
I'll submit the Documentation suggestion separately.
Ralph