Hi Nate,
> 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.
Can I ask why you don’t use the broken parameter(s) for that? e.g.
\score {
\new Staff \relative {
<<
{
\override TextSpanner.style = #'line
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.left-broken.text = ##f
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup {
\italic "sul tasto"
% \hspace #0.25
}
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.stencil-align-dir-y = #CENTER
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.arrow = ##t
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.right-broken.arrow = ##f
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.stencil-align-dir-y = #CENTER
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.right-broken.text = ##f
\override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = \markup \italic "norm."
s1\startTextSpan s s\stopTextSpan
}
{ c'1~1~ \break 1 }
>>
}
}
Cheers,
Kieren.
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