spanner-interface

Other grobs have a shape that depends on the horizontal spacing. For example, slur, beam, tie, etc. These grobs form a subtype called Spanner. All spanners have two span-points (these must be Items), one on the left and one on the right. The left bound is also the X-reference point of the spanner.

minimum-length (dimension, in staff space)

try to make the Grob at least this long.

Also works as a scaling parameter for the length of hyphen. .

This grob interface is used in the following graphical objects: VoltaBracket, VoiceFollower, VerticalAxisGroup, VerticalAlignment, UnaCordaPedalLineSpanner, TupletBracket, TieColumn, Tie, TextSpanner, SystemStartBracket, SystemStartBar, System, SustainPedalLineSpanner, StaffSymbol, SpacingSpanner, SostenutoPedalLineSpanner, Slur, SeparatingGroupSpanner, RemoveEmptyVerticalGroup, PianoPedalBracket, PhrasingSlur, PercentRepeat, OttavaSpanner, MultiMeasureRestText, MultiMeasureRestNumber, MeasureGrouping, LyricHyphen, LyricExtender, LigatureBracket, HorizontalBracket, Hairpin, Glissando, DynamicLineSpanner, ClusterSpanner and Beam

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