Re: what's the centred-text-spanner state of the art?

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> The text-spanner-inner-texts.ly seemed too “heavy” for what I need… but it 
> *does* work perfectly, and I’ll likely use many (or even all?!) of its 
> superpowers at some point in my score.

Yes, it's a lot of code.  Part of the reason that it's so long,
however, it that it is built on a rewrite of ly:line-spanner::print in
Scheme.  So all of the default functionality is there: you can use
ordinary text spanners with no loss of functionality.  (Though I may
need to add in arrows, IIRC.)  It's conceived as an enhancement which
could replace the default print function, because any addition of
multi-text spanners to the code base should handle them without the
need for competing stencil functions.

David