Re: multiple TextSpanners per voice

[Trevor Bača]

This is excellent.

The combination of the engraver and the ID labeling work perfectly.

I think it would be wonderful to consider including David's engraver in a
coming public release.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:28 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden>
wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Trevor Bača <address@hidden> writes:
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>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'd like to add that I'm *incredibly* excited by this work. The ability
>> to
>> > have multiple text spanners in a voice -- and to tweak each
>> independently
>> > -- is something I've wanted in LilyPond for many years. (I responded to
>> a
>> > different thread about this a touch too early only moments ago;
>> apologies,
>> > catching up on list mail.) This is really incredibly exciting to me,
>> and I
>> > think it will be to very many other composers once the ability is made
>> > clear in a public release (and in the docs).
>> >
>> > For what it's worth, I'd very much like to request the promotion of this
>> > work to a fully acknowledged new feature (respecting, of course, the
>> needs
>> > of feature sequencing in the release process).
>> >
>> > I'm not quite sure what the best (user) interface for this is. I suppose
>> > \startTextSpan[One|Two|Three|Four] will work. Though it seems like
>> > \startTextSpan #1 or \startTextSpan #"fancy-spanner-name" would be a
>> more
>> > complete generalization of the feature.
>>
>> \=1\startTextSpan ... \=1\endTextSpan already work as a user interface.
>> It's just that there is nothing that would actually _heed_ the settings
>> of "spanner-id" achieved in that manner yet.
>>
>>
> This works wonderfully well as an interface with the engraver I posted.
> Thank you so much!  Now it is possible to remove all the extra definitions
> of \startTextSpanEightyFour and the like.
>
> See attached.
>
> DN
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Trevor Bača
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