Re: `\textLengthOn` for `TextSpanner` grobs

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Werner (et al.),

>> Use
>>   \override TextSpanner.minimum-length = 30
>>   \override TextSpanner.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods
> Thanks.  Alas, doesn't work correctly for broken spanners

Yeah, I saw that coming… as well as the fundamental "trial-and-error" problem.

> I also wonder whether there is a solution (or should be a solution)
> that doesn't need manual entering of a minimum length value that can
> only be found by trial and error.

Does David N's text-spanner work solve this problem, I wonder?

Cheers,
Kieren.