Re: How to get multiple text spanners at the same height?

[Jim Long]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:19:25PM +0100, Peter Toye wrote:
> I found the cres--cen--do conversation - it seems that there's
> a general need for a new form of text spanner which can spread
> out the text.

At the risk of seeming a curmudgeon, I would refute "general."

I'm unclear on what the difference in meaning is between:

crescendo ----------------------------

and 

cres ------  cen ------- do ----------

But then, there are probably even larger things that I'm 
unclear on.