LilyPond Internals Reference: 1.1.85 TextSpanEvent

### 1.1.85 TextSpanEvent

Start a text spanner, for example, an octavation.

Event classes: music-event, span-event, StreamEvent and text-span-event.

Accepted by: Text_spanner_engraver.

Properties:

> `name` (symbol):

>   `'TextSpanEvent`

>   Name of this music object.

> `types` (list):

>   `'(general-music span-event event text-span-event)`

>   The types of this music object; determines by what engraver this music expression is processed.

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