THank you Pierre,
exactly what i was looking for. However, how can i turn off the left
textSpan property if i want to span four bars which is broken over two
systems, and i don't wish to repeat the "molto rit" for the left attribute
of the span in the second system?

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 1:34 AM Pierre Perol-Schneider <
pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
> Your example does not compile.
> How about putting the text into the sapnner ?
> Cf.
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-text.html#text-spanners
> Cheers,
> Pierre
>
> Le dim. 14 oct. 2018 à 09:38, Ryan Michael <ryan.wiegh...@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> So i have a scenario where I want a textSpanner to follow a heading i
>> have
>> over the treble clef of a system where there is only action in the left
>> hand (Bass clef). e.g.
>>
>> %%%%%
>> \version "2.18.2"
>> up = \new Staff = "up" {
>> r1/^\markup{\huge "molto rit."}  r1\startTextSpanner r1 r1\stopTextSpanner
>> }
>>
>> down = \new Staff = "down" {
>> c,,4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4 c4
>> }
>> {
>>   \new PianoStaff <<
>>          \up
>>    \down
>>   >>
>> }
>> %%%%
>>
>> my issues is that i want the spanner to really start immediately after
>> the markup. do i have to make some fake notes in the right hand to anchor
>> the spanner or can i just move it around by other means?
>>
>> best,
>> ryan.
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