Re: TextSpanner shortcut

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-03-17 10:05 am, foxfanfare wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Could anyone could tell me what's wrong with my shortcut?
> It's printing the spanner correctly but not the text:
>
> rit =
>   #(make-music 'TextSpanEvent
>                'span-direction -1
>                'span-type 'text
>                'span-text "rit.")
>
> \score {
>   \new Staff \relative c'' {
>     c4\<\rit
>     d e f
>     g1\!\stopTextSpan
>   }
> }

span-type and span-text are for dynamic text spanners (e.g. 
CrescendoEvent).  You can set these music properties for a 
TextSpanEvent, but Text_spanner_engraver will just ignore them.

Instead, you should \override or \tweak the bound-details of TextSpanner 
to attach text to the left or right end of the span.  Something like 
this avoids the need to use make-music:

%%%%
\version "2.20.0"

rit = -\tweak bound-details.left.text "rit." \startTextSpan

{ a'4\rit g'8 f' b'2\stopTextSpan }
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill