Hi Nate, At 06:31 on 20 Jun 2023, Nate Whetsell wrote: > Hi,
> I’m trying to figure out the “right” (most flexible, best looking) way > to put bow positions like sul pont and sul tasto (really their > abbreviations s.p. and s.t.) above a staff with transition arrows, > like in Gould’s Behind Bars p. 407. Here are some things I’ve tried: > • Use a TextSpanner > (https://lilypond.org/doc/Documentation/notation/line-spanners), as > suggested at > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-12/msg00347.html. > This has the advantage of being relatively simple to use. Some > disadvantages are that the text at the ends of the arrow tends to be > misaligned (although this can be fixed with some hacks), and the > line-breaking behavior can produce unreadable results. I've generally come to the conclusion that TextSpanner is the most flexible solution for this. My custom function include file is attached - it contains some examples at the bottom (commented out by default). I think the text alignments are fixed. I'm not sure what problems you're having with line-breaking - perhaps the list can help with those? Regards, Mark
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