Re: textspanner arrowed line

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:29:47 +0200
Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Op 15-apr-05 om 21:49 heeft Jonatan Liljedahl het volgende geschreven:
> 
> >
> > I'll take a look in line-spanner.cc and see if I can add a property
> > "arrow-style" or something like that. I think it's a quite common
> > thing to have a textspanner with text in both ends and an arrow in
> > between. It's the last thing that is needed for me to typeset my
> > last composition
> > with Lilypond instead of Finale (which is what is available in
> > school).
> >
> 
> This sounds like a good idea. Probably the arrow drawing should be
> done by the line-interface code, because arrows are a generic thing to
> have on lines.

Yes, I'll see what I can do. Is make_line() and make_dashed_line() only
used by the Line_interface::line() function? (so that it's Ok to add an
extra argument to make_line() to tell it about the arrow...)

> > But otherwise, would it be possible to replace the whole
> > TextSpanner::print function and do both texts and arrow? What should
> > I do in the end of the function, just return the stencil or call
> > something?
> 
> If in Scheme, simply return the stencil. For C++ examples, see any 
> print function.

I haven't figured out how to make a simple text stencil in scheme... 

> > Another solution would be to put the arrow in the end edge text, and
> > translate it to the left a bit... Is it possible to include markup 
> > (with
> > \stencil code-to-draw-arrowhead) in the edge texts somehow?
> 
> I'm not sure it will work. There is padding (bound-padding property) 
> between the text and the line,
> but you could give it a try.

I tried putting markup in the edge texts but they came out verbatim. 

/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-