Much thanks Kieren,
This works:
\new Staff \relative c'' {
\override Staff.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "let ring "
<<
\new Voice = "1" { \textSpannerDown \voiceOne \upper }
--hsm
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Kieren MacMillan
<kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi Hugh,
>
>> The following fails twice over; it leaves out the indicated text and
>> ignores \textSpannerDown:
>> […]
>> Where did I screw up?
>
> You made the tweaks to the TextSpanner in the main Voice context:
>
>> <<
>> \new Staff \relative c'' {
>> \textSpannerDown
>> \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "let ring "
>
> but then generated a TextSpanner in a new Voice context:
>
>> <<
>> \new Voice = "1" { \voiceOne \upper }
>> \new Voice = "2" { \voiceTwo \lower }
>> >>
>
> I suggest instead that you either put the tweak in the variable itself (so
> it follows the generated TextSpanner around) or explicitly set the context
> of the tweak to the entire staff:
>
> \override Staff.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "let ring "
>
> Hope this helps!
> Kieren.
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