Hiding the dashed line in a text crescendo
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Text crescendi (or decrescendi, ritardandi, etc.) show a dashed line by default. To hide this spanner line, simply set the dash-period of DynamicTextSpanner (or TextSpanner if you use one for “rit.”) to a negative value.
\version "2.24.0"
%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=404
\relative c'' {
% Default: Dashed line
\crescTextCresc
c4\< c c c\!
\crescTextCresc
\once \override DynamicTextSpanner.style = #'none
c4\< c c c\!
}