Re: `\textLengthOn` for `TextSpanner` grobs

[Werner LEMBERG]

Hello Kieren,


>>> 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?

What are you referring to?


    Werner