Re: TextSpanner usability improvements (was Re: Scheme predicative types)

[Thomas Morley]

Am So., 20. Sept. 2020 um 17:30 Uhr schrieb Xavier Scheuer
<x.scheuer@gmail.com>:
>
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 13:03, Thomas Morley <thomasmorley65@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > in general I'm more with Aaron.
> > P.e., I have no clue which default text one could think of for
> > TextSpanner's left/right-text!?
> > Otoh, I'd wish we'd have a LilyPond-data-structure to assign a list of
> > key/value pairs in ly-syntax to a variable. Right now we can do so at
> > top-level, in layout, paper and \with.
> >
> > That said, find attached a TempoSpanner-coding.
> > I'm not sure it's the best approach at all. For sure there's wide room
> > for improvements.
> > Probably the best one could say: it's a proof of concept.
>
> Hi,
>
> Great! Could you add this to issue 3176 (a proof of concept is not yet a 
> proper solution, but is anyway better than nothing, especially for a 7 years 
> old issue)?
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/3176
>
> Thank you!
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier
>
> --
> Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>
>

Done, with a slightly improved and commented code:
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/3176#note_415526421

Cheers,
  Harm