3.7.5 Text spanners

Some performance indications, e.g. rallentando or accelerando, are written as texts, and extended over many measures with dotted lines. You can create such texts using text spanners: attach \startTextSpan and \stopTextSpan to the start and ending note of the spanner.

The string to be printed, as well as the style, is set through object properties

     \relative c' {
       c1
       \override TextSpanner #'direction = #-1
       \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'("rall " . "")
       c2\startTextSpan b c\stopTextSpan a
     }

See also

Internals TextSpanEvent (lilypond-internals), TextSpanner (lilypond-internals).

Examples: input/regression/text-spanner.ly.

This page is for LilyPond-2.2.6 (stable-branch). Report errors to <bug-lilypond@gnu.org>.