On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 at 14:52, Vaughan McAlley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a text spanner with a dashed line indicating an accelerando. How do
> I get the dashed line to begin and end just a bit further away from its
> text?
>
> Vaughan
>
> %% Example start
> \version "2.25.29"
>
> \relative c'' {
> \time 4/4
> \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup { \small \bold
> \upright "accel." }
> \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = \markup \small \bold
> \upright \concat { "a tempo " \note {4} #UP " = 104" }
>
> c4 c c c |
> c4 \startTextSpan c c c |
> c4 c c c |
> c4 c c c |
> c4 \stopTextSpan c c c |
> c4 c c c |
> }
> %% Example ends
>
>
>
I thought of putting a couple of spaces after the left text and before the
right text. It only took me five days, haha!
Vaughan
