Lack of easy tempo spanners is one of Lilypond's most prominent weaknesses. A "rall..." spanner as a tempo mark for all players is absolutely standard notation.
Attached is a template I arrived at a while ago with the help of some other forum users, that solves the problem in most cases, and doesn't require sacrificing the use of spanners elsewhere. <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n178836/tempo-spanners.png> tempo-spanners.ly <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n178836/tempo-spanners.ly> -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/TextSpanner-mark-tp178824p178836.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user