Re: Custom dynamic text with spanner

[Michael Werner]

Hi Evan - 

Just above the section you linked to is a bit titled "Changing text and spanner styles for text dynamics" that seems to be what you're asking about.

Short version:

\set crescendoText = \markup { \italic { molto cresc } }
\set crescendoSpanner = #'text

should be either what you're wanting or pretty close to it.

Michael

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 1:06 AM Evan Driscoll <evaned@gmail.com> wrote:

The manual describes (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes#new-dynamic-marks) how to create new dynamics with custom markup...

...but it doesn't say how to combine that with an indication like "cresc." that gets a spanner attached to it, and my searches and playing around aren't turning up anything.

How would I do something like \cresc (with its default behavior of emitting a spanner) but with custom text, e.g. "molto cresc"?

Evan