Re: event listener and engraver properties

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:

>> which uses the engraver.  I couldn't see any event-specific way to
>> get the text of a text spanner -- the information appears to exist
>> on the engraver level only.
>
> Hmm, this is one situation where listening to events isn't as user-friendly.
>
> The event for a text spanner doesn't carry the text info since it's
> applied via an override (a separate event class).  You'd need to
> listen for overrides and check the symbol being set (which is the grob
> the override's applied to):

This may be a good argument to move the textinfo into the event.

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