Re: TextSpanner shortcut

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-03-18 3:51 am, foxfanfare wrote:
> Thank you Aaron for the explanation. I was trying the make-music 
> solution as
> I was also trying to make a generic function, something like:
>
> c4-\mySpan "molto rit." d e f g1\stopTextSpan

No worries.  Does this help?

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\version "2.20.0"

startTextSpanWithLeftText =
  #(define-music-function (text) (markup?)
    #{ -\tweak bound-details.left.text #text
        \startTextSpan #})

% startTextSpanWithLeftText =
%   #(define-music-function (text) (markup?)
%     (make-music
%       'TextSpanEvent
%       'tweaks `(((#t bound-details left text) . ,text))
%       'span-direction START))

rit = \startTextSpanWithLeftText "rit."

{ a'4\rit g'8 f' b'2\stopTextSpan }
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NOTE: I provided a version that shows the equivalent make-music usage.


-- Aaron Hill