Dynamics spanner with custom text (2): Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 12:23, 9 December 2025

Custom text spanners can be defined and used with hairpin and text crescendos. \< and \> produce hairpins by default, \cresc, etc., produce text spanners by default.

\version "2.24"

% Some sample text dynamic spanners, to be used as postfix operators
crpoco =
#(make-music 'CrescendoEvent
             'span-direction START
             'span-type 'text
             'span-text "cresc. poco a poco")

\relative c' {
  c4\cresc d e f |
  g4 a\! b\crpoco c |
  c4 d e f |
  c,4 d e f | 
  g4 a\! b\< c |
  g4\dim a b c |
  g4\decresc a b c |
  g4 a b c\! |
}

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-Custom text spanners can be defined and used with hairpin and text crescendos. <code>\&lt;</code> and <code>\&gt;</code> produce hairpins by default, <code>\cresc</code> etc. produce text spanners by default.
+Custom text spanners can be defined and used with hairpin and text crescendos. <code>\<</code> and <code>\></code> produce hairpins by default, <code>\cresc</code>, etc., produce text spanners by default.
 <lilypond version="2.24">
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 \relative c' {
-   c4\cresc d4 e4 f4 |
+   c4\cresc d e f |
-   g4 a4\! b4\crpoco c4 |
+   g4 a\! b\crpoco c |
-   c4 d4 e4 f4 |
+  c4 d e f |
-   g4 a4\! b4\< c4 |
+   c,4 d e f |
-   g4\dim a4 b4\decresc c4\!
+   g4 a\! b\< c |
+   g4\dim a b c |
+  g4\decresc a b c |
+  g4 a b c\! |
 }
 </lilypond>
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 [[Category:Expressive marks]]
 [[Category:Tweaks and overrides]]
-[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]
+[[Category:Snippet]]