Re: Can I switch off automatic repetition of spanner text?

[Leo Correia de Verdier]

There are also functions written that create this kind of spanners, for 
instance at 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00405.html
(I think there might also be a newer version, but I’m not sure)
This has the benefit that the words in the spanner are not forced to align with 
notes.

Best!
/Leo

> 12 maj 2021 kl. 11:53 skrev Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>:
> 
> 
> Le 12/05/2021 à 11:39, Matthew Munro a écrit :
>> Greetings, all.
>> 
>> I have searched for help on this and failed to find. Please would someone 
>> tell me how to suppress automatic repetition of spanner text (where the 
>> spanner reaches a new line)? Repetition appears to be the default. I have 
>> not seen such repetition in my sheet music (except for ottava markings) and, 
>> now that I am writing my own music, the repetition has a tendency to 
>> interfere with my paradigm. I am happy for the spanner’s dashes to continue 
>> from line to line, but I would like a way to switch off the repetition of 
>> text.
>> 
>> By the way... Checking my sheet music just now, I noticed (in Ravel) that 
>> there is another method for spanning text: breaking up the words into 
>> letters or groups of letters, to make the words last throughout the span. 
>> Does Lilypond have any facility for this?
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Matthew
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> To suppress the repetition, adjust bound-details.left-broken.text,
> which by default is taken from bound-details.left.text.
> 
> \version "2.22.0"
> 
> {
>   c1
>     \tweak bound-details.left.text "Crescendo poco a poco"
>     \tweak bound-details.left-broken.text ""
>     \startTextSpan
>   \repeat unfold 20 { c1 }
>   1\stopTextSpan
> }
> 
> There is currently no proper way to intersperse words throughout a
> text spanner. A clever workaround was suggested by David Kastrup
> on issue 3373 (https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/3373):
> 
> \version "2.22.0"
> 
> \new Score \with {
>   \override SpacingSpanner.spacing-increment = 3
> }
> <<
>   \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
>     \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
>     \override LyricHyphen.dash-period = 3
>     \override LyricHyphen.Y-offset = #-0.5
>     Crescendo1 --
>     poco --
>     a --
>     poco
>   }
>   {
>     c1 1 1 1
>   }
> >>
> 
> Best regards,
> Jean
> 
>