Issue 4785: Let TextSpanner inherit any direction set in event

Something like c_\startTextSpan should create a TextSpanner below the system.

diff --git a/lily/text-spanner-engraver.cc b/lily/text-spanner-engraver.cc
index f34f494301345329cad032a90c5f6bb39b0db6cd..249fdce04a30820016bee93d980236bee636ef00 100644 (file)
--- a/lily/text-spanner-engraver.cc
+++ b/lily/text-spanner-engraver.cc
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ Text_spanner_engraver::process_music ()
         {
           current_event_ = event_drul_[START];
           span_ = make_spanner ("TextSpanner", event_drul_[START]->self_scm ());
+          if (Direction d = to_dir (current_event_->get_property ("direction")))
+            span_->set_property ("direction", scm_from_int (d));
 
           Side_position_interface::set_axis (span_, Y_AXIS);
           event_drul_[START] = 0;