LilyPond Internals Reference: 1.1.104 TextSpanEvent

### 1.1.104 `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):

      '(post-event 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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