Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-16 Thread Jacques Menu
Thanks Ham, it does compile with LP 2.19.24! JM > Le 16 août 2015 à 03:03, Thomas Morley a écrit : > > 2015-08-15 4:20 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard : >> >> If we can have left text set, and right text set, having centred text set >> does not seem unreasonable. I’m not sure the generalised possibl

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-15 4:20 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard : > > If we can have left text set, and right text set, having centred text set > does not seem unreasonable. I’m not sure the generalised possible extensions > are that useful. But having a bracket with some text in the middle is so > commonly done by co

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
If we can have left text set, and right text set, having centred text set does not seem unreasonable. I’m not sure the generalised possible extensions are that useful. But having a bracket with some text in the middle is so commonly done by composers with a pencil (at least, the composers I dea

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
David Nalesnik writes: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > >> >> One could go even further and have text spanners with not only two or, >> with centered text, three but an arbitrary number of texts evenly >> distributed over the length of the spanner. >> > > This is a

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > > One could go even further and have text spanners with not only two or, > with centered text, three but an arbitrary number of texts evenly > distributed over the length of the spanner. > This is a topic that has come up fairly often and

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > > > Am 14.08.2015 um 04:40 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > >> Hello Ponderers, >> >> I need a custom text spanner with text centred in the middle of the >> spanner. I know you can provide text at the left or the right with the >> bound-details a

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 14.08.2015 um 13:11 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate a repeat structure to lilypond, so it is a

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
Just re my own suggestion of text spanners with text in the middle, although the present need is for a repeat indication, I am well aware that this is poor design, since a textual mark does not indicate a repeat structure to lilypond, so it is architecturally incorrect, which would be grounds fo

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Maite, Thanks so much. The tuplet bracket hack mentioned there works, well enough. Obviously this calls for that sort of machinery. But the last post in that thread asks what seems to me a legitimate question: why can’t we have something like: \override TextSpanner.bound-details.centre.

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 14.08.2015 um 04:40 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Hello Ponderers, I need a custom text spanner with text centred in the middle of the spanner. I know you can provide text at the left or the right with the bound-details alist, but how would one go about making a spanner with text in the middle,