Re: Text Spanner repeated after a break

[Molly Preston]

Hi Jean!

Thank you so much! That worked. I will have to keep this in mind. It's interesting that the OttavaSpanner doesn't have something similar. Why is that?

-Molly

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:37 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

Le 13/12/2021 à 04:03, Molly Preston a écrit :
> Hi again.
>
> I have a similar problem to the 8va showing up after line breaks. I
> made a text spanner that's a rit.-----
>
> It shows up on the line after a break. I tried to modify the scheme
> code slightly like this:
>
>
>   \version "2.22.1"
>   \new Staff
>    \absolute  {
>         #(define (text-callback grob)
>   (let* (
>          ; have we been split?
>          (orig (ly:grob-original grob))
>          ; if yes, get the split pieces (our siblings)
>          (siblings (if (ly:grob? orig)
>  (ly:spanner-broken-into orig) '() )))
>    (if (and (>= (length siblings) 2)
>              (not (eq? (car siblings) grob)))
>      (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text #f)
>      (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'stencil (ly:line-spanner::print
> grob)))))
>       \override TextSpanner.after-line-breaking = #text-callback
>      \time 6/8
>       \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup {\bold
> rit. }
>         \override TextSpanner.after-line-breaking = ##f
>            \override TextSpanner.font-shape = #'upright
>          \override TextSpanner.to-barline = ##t
>    \override TextSpanner.staff-padding = #6
>                    dis''2. \> \startTextSpan  |
>                    \break
>                   ais'2. \fermata \!  |
>                         \tempo \markup { \concat  {"Anxious"  \hspace
> #0.75 %{\general-align #Y #DOWN%}
>  \note-by-number #1 #0 #UP \hspace  #1
>  \musicglyph "ties.lyric.short" \hspace  #1
> \note-by-number #2 #1 #UP
>       " = "
>         \hspace #0.5
>       ca. \hspace #0.5  "40"
>                      }
>     }
>  \time 7/8
>  \clef bass
>   \set Timing.beatStructure = 4,3
> \once \override DynamicText.Y-offset = # 3
>   <ees ees'>8\( \f \stopTextSpan  <d d'> <des des' > <d d'> <fis fis'
> >\) -. <d d' >\( <fis fis' >\) -.
>     }
>
> This didn't work though and I'm wondering if the stencil is wrong or
> something? Not sure how it works.



For text spanners, there is a simpler interface.
details at the left are taken either from bound-details.left
or from the combination of bound-details.left-broken and
bound-details.left. In this case, just set the
property in left-broken accordingly.

   \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup {\bold rit. }
   \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left-broken.text = ""


Best,
Jean