Re: textspanner arrowed line

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:09 -0300, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> First of all, if you want this reply to the mailinglist instead of
> personally, then why did you mail me personally in the first place? (not

I apologise.  I just switched email clients (from emacs+VM to
Evolution), and I am still coping with the different controls.
Hopefully, this goes to the mailing list as I originally intended 

> > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:17 -0300, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> > > I'm trying to make an arrowed line textspanner, I'm almost there...
> > > The problem is that the arrow is attached to the whole spanner
> > > including the text. I wish to attach it only to the line, which
> > > means that it is the Line_spanner::print function I should hook. But
> > > how do I do that? How do I get to the TextSpanners line print
> > > function?
> > 
> > you can't. You have to modify the C++ code, or rewrite the C++ in
> > Scheme. Look in line-spanner.cc to see how it works.
> 
> So there's no way in scheme to "decompose" the textspanner grob/stencil
> into the separate stencils for
> 1. left edge text, 2. the line, 3. right edge text?

Correct. 

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