Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 8:50 PM, "Andrew Bernard" wrote: >Hi Ryan, > >Yes, at 2.19.41 specifying dotted-line style for text spanners just uses >tiny dashes that look a bit like dots, and you can¹t make them larger. Actually, you can make them larger with the TextSpanner.thickness parameter, but they'll sti

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 4:18 PM, "Ryan Michael" wrote: >Hello I am trying to go for a classic textSpan look, by using essentially >a period '.' quite large and bold. >as the in lieu of the 'dashed-line, line style. Is there a way I can do >this? Ryan, I can find no way of doing it with the current LilyPo

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 7:12 PM, "Ryan Michael" wrote: >great! Thanks Carl. Question, you have dots, I have the dashed line. When >I try: >% >\override TextSpanner.style = #'dotted-line > \override TextSpanner.dash-fraction = 0 >\override TextSpanner.dash-period = 5 >\override TextSpanner.t

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 4:24 PM, "Ryan Michael" wrote: >please confer with this Schoenberg op 30 engraving, where the "rit ... >Tempo" are designed in the way I am trying to achieve. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidU-4YF03Y It looks to me like all they have done in that engraving is make the TextSpanne

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-15 Thread Ryan Michael
great idea! Thank you all! On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Yes, at 2.19.41 specifying dotted-line style for text spanners just uses > tiny dashes that look a bit like dots, and you can’t make them larger. > > I have scheme code to do what you want, but it is

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-15 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Ryan, Yes, at 2.19.41 specifying dotted-line style for text spanners just uses tiny dashes that look a bit like dots, and you can’t make them larger. I have scheme code to do what you want, but it is underdeveloped in that it does not deal with line breaks yet. In the meantime, since you ca

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-15 Thread Ryan Michael
great! Thanks Carl. Question, you have dots, I have the dashed line. When I try: % \override TextSpanner.style = #'dotted-line \override TextSpanner.dash-fraction = 0 \override TextSpanner.dash-period = 5 \override TextSpanner.thickness = 5 c\startTextSpan d e f g g g a g f a g f

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-15 Thread Ryan Michael
please confer with this Schoenberg op 30 engraving, where the "rit ... Tempo" are designed in the way I am trying to achieve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidU-4YF03Y On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Ryan Michael wrote: > Hello I am trying to go for a classic textSpan look, by using essentia