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8.1.2 Text spanners

Some performance indications, e.g., rallentando or accelerando, are written as text and are extended over many measures with dotted lines. Such texts are created using text spanners; attach \startTextSpan and \stopTextSpan to the first and last notes of the spanner.

The string to be printed, as well as the style, is set through object properties

     c1
     \textSpannerDown
     \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'("rall " . "")
     c2\startTextSpan b c\stopTextSpan a

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Predefined commands

textSpannerUp, textSpannerDown, textSpannerNeutral.

See also

Program reference: TextSpanner.

Examples: input/regression/text-spanner.ly.

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