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Fw: Re: text block as spanner


From: Trevor
Subject: Fw: Re: text block as spanner
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:06:49 +0000
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Leo Correia de Verdier wrote 31/01/2019 09:27:22
I’m still learning lilypond and working on a piece with long text instructions 
that appear over a note or group of notes. So far I have managed to achieve 
this by hacking off the stencils from text spanners and replacing them with the 
line wrapped markup, but I feel there should be a neater solution out there 
that I just haven’t thought or learned about. This hack has also reached it’s 
limits because it has created the need for multiple simultaneous text spanners 
(not in the example). While I could go further down the hack road by placing 
additional spanners in separate voices with spacer rests or starting to destroy 
trill spanners too, that would just increase the mess. Could you please point 
me towards a tidier path? :)

I'm not sure there is one. There is a brief section in the NR (see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/opera-and-stage-musicals#dialogue-over-music ) which suggests a very messy workaround, but this is only workable for relatively short texts. You may be able to carry this approach further.

As this is a common requirement for stage musicals it's possible Kieren has a solution. Kieren?

Trevor




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