Re: LilyPond | Various doc issues (!1095)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 7:55 PM Jean Abou Samra (@jeanas)
<gitlab@mg.gitlab.com> wrote:
>
> Jean Abou Samra commented on a discussion on 
> Documentation/en/notation/notation-appendices.itely:

>[about InstrumentName spanners]
>
> 3289
>
> +@strong{Spanners} are a class of grobs that span up something in
>
> 3290
>
> +the horizontal direction; in most cases they contain the word
>
> On a personal note, I find the use of spanners misleading for these and would 
> very much like to see them converted to breakable items like bar numbers, 
> etc. That would be the main part

Converting them to breakable items adds 3 grobs per break-point, so it
has a certain cost. Since these items don't participate much in the
formatting process, there is little benefit to compensate for the
cost.

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