Enhancement request: stretched text in text spanners

[Peter Toye]

I want to put text like rall----en---tan---do into some music. I've noticed 
that the mailing list also had someone who wanted to put cres---cendo 
similarly. 

The current text spanner cannot do this, and various people have suggested 
workarounds. The main problem is that with a simple text spanner, each item of 
text is separate from the next, and the heights can vary.

I'm a newbie to Lilypond, so I'm afraid that I can't really help by suggesting 
a syntax for a replacement that would be compatible with LP's design methods, 
but I'm sure that someone here can do this!
 
Regards,

Peter
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