Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

[Urs Liska]

Am 05.02.2014 15:20, schrieb David Nalesnik:
> Hi Urs,
>
>
>      >- is it possible to make a TextSpanner always to align
>      >   to the right edge of the score (i.e. the barline)
>      >   and let the dash structure adapt to that?
>      >   (I see the 'right-bound-info' property but didn't
>      >    find any helpful information on that alist)
>
>
> This was one of my pet peeves with Finale--having to endlessly adjust
> dashed lines so they weren't ended by a dot (usually discovered on the
> printout...)
>
> I can't see any reason why LilyPond couldn't be enhanced to ensure that
> this doesn't happen.

Yes, I think that the overall extent of the spanner should (optionally) 
be favored against the literal dash structure.

Actually LilyPond wouldn't (AFAICS) end the spanner with a dot, but 
rather with a gap (which isn't nice either).

> In fact, there's a markup command \draw-dashed-line which guards against
> these clipped edges.

You mean I should replace the TextSpanner by a custom \markup command?


Urs