Measure spanner - Revision history

Lemzwerg at 12:22, 12 December 2025

2025-12-12T12:22:55Z

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	Measure spanners are an alternate way to print annotated brackets. As opposed to horizontal brackets, they extend between two bar lines rather than two notes. The text is displayed in the center of the bracket.		Measure spanners are an alternate way to print annotated brackets. As opposed to horizontal brackets, they extend between two bar lines rather than two notes. The text is displayed in the center of the bracket.

	<lilypond version="2.24" ~~full~~>		<lilypond version="2.24">
	~~\paper { tagline = ##f }~~

	\layout {		\layout {
	\context {		\context {
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	\key d \minor		\key d \minor
	\tweak text "Subject"		\tweak text "Subject"
	\tweak direction #DOWN		\tweak direction #DOWN
	\startMeasureSpanner		\startMeasureSpanner
	\tuplet 3/2 8 {		\tuplet 3/2 8 {
	d16[ e f] g[ f e] f[ g a] bes[ a g]		d16[ e f] g[ f e] f[ g a] bes[ a g]
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	\stopMeasureSpanner		\stopMeasureSpanner
	\tweak text "Counter-subject"		\tweak text "Counter-subject"
	\tweak direction #DOWN		\tweak direction #DOWN
	\startMeasureSpanner		\startMeasureSpanner
	f8 e a r r16 b, c d e fis g e		f8 e a r r16 b, c d e fis g e
	a gis a b c fis, b a gis e a4 g8		a gis a b c fis, b a gis e a4 g8
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	</lilypond>		</lilypond>

			[[Category:Contexts and engravers]]
	[[Category:Editorial annotations]]		[[Category:Editorial annotations]]
	[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]		[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]
	[[Category:Snippet]]		[[Category:Snippet]]

Lemzwerg: New category

2025-11-21T23:28:17Z

New category

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	[[Category:Editorial annotations]]		[[Category:Editorial annotations]]
	[[Category:Included in the official documentation]][[Category:Snippet]]		[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]
			[[Category:Snippet]]

Lemzwerg at 22:56, 21 November 2025

2025-11-21T22:56:00Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:56, 21 November 2025
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	[[Category:Editorial annotations]]		[[Category:Editorial annotations]]
	[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]		[[Category:Included in the official documentation]][[Category:Snippet]]

Jean Abou Samra: Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

2025-11-16T18:56:12Z

Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

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	Measure spanners are an alternate way to print annotated brackets. As opposed to horizontal brackets, they extend between two bar lines rather than two notes. The text is displayed in the center of the bracket.		Measure spanners are an alternate way to print annotated brackets. As opposed to horizontal brackets, they extend between two bar lines rather than two notes. The text is displayed in the center of the bracket.

	<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>		<lilypond version="2.24" full>
	\paper { tagline = ##f }		\paper { tagline = ##f }

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:50:54Z

Import snippet from LSR

New page

Measure spanners are an alternate way to print annotated brackets. As opposed to horizontal brackets, they extend between two bar lines rather than two notes. The text is displayed in the center of the bracket.

<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>
\paper { tagline = ##f }

\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\consists Measure_spanner_engraver
}
}

<<
\new Staff \relative c'' {
\key d \minor
R1*2
\tweak text "Answer"
\startMeasureSpanner
\tuplet 3/2 8 {
a16[ b c] d[ c b] c[ d e] f[ e d]
}
e8 a gis g
fis f e d~ d c b e
\stopMeasureSpanner
}
\new Staff \relative c' {
\key d \minor
\tweak text "Subject"
\tweak direction #DOWN
\startMeasureSpanner
\tuplet 3/2 8 {
d16[ e f] g[ f e] f[ g a] bes[ a g]
}
a8 d cis c
b bes a g~ g f e a
\stopMeasureSpanner
\tweak text "Counter-subject"
\tweak direction #DOWN
\startMeasureSpanner
f8 e a r r16 b, c d e fis g e
a gis a b c fis, b a gis e a4 g8
\stopMeasureSpanner
}
>>
</lilypond>

[[Category:Editorial annotations]]
[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]