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
textSpannerUp
,
textSpannerDown
,
textSpannerNeutral
.
Program reference: TextSpanner.
Examples: input/regression/text-spanner.ly.
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