It may be a cheat, but in that sort of situation I just add invisible
notes to put the space where necessary. In your example I removed the
TextLength directives and changed your "othernotes" to:
othernotes = \relative c'{
e8 f g a g2 << c2 \\ { \hideNotes a8 a a a } >> b2
}
The hidden quavers stretch the required space out the same as the
unhidden ones in the first bar.
Paul
On 24/10/2021 18:56:46, "Erika Pirnes" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I've been struggling with spacing issues. In my example below, the
>second measure shows the default behavior, where the two markups are
>placed on top of each other. (If I was playing this, I would find it
>very confusing.) I would like to stretch the long note in the beginning
>of second measure, so that the two markups can fit next to each other.
>
>I thought "textLenghtOn" would solve my problems but it seemingly just
>moves them somewhere else, here the other part (see first measure of
>the example). I also tried experimenting with
>"SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration" but it doesn't solve the
>problem and makes the spacing look pretty ridiculous after some point.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>\version "2.18.2"
>
>rit = \markup {\italic "rit." }
>atempo = \markup {\italic "a tempo" }
>
>tempos = {
>\textLengthOn
>s2^\atempo
>s2^\rit
>\textLengthOff
>s2^\atempo
>s2^\rit
>}
>
>notes = \relative c'{
>c2. d8 b
>c2. g8 b
>}
>
>othernotes = \relative c'{
>e8 f g a g2 c2 b
>}
>
>\score {
> <<
> \new Staff <<\tempos \notes >>
> \new Staff {\othernotes}
> >>
>}
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Erika
