I'm typesetting some French baroque music, in which a sort of large breath
mark was used to indicate a particular type of trill.  And the mark is
positioned close to the note, generally a little to the right and up.

What I've done is create a small function:

ttr = #(define-event-function (placement) (pair?)
        #{
         -\tweak extra-offset #placement
         -\markup {\fontsize #4 \musicglyph #"scripts.rcomma"}
#} )

which can be used like this:

\relative c'' {
  g8. ^\ttr #'(2.5 . -3.0) a16
}

The trouble is that Lilypond sometimes doesn't recognize this symbol as
needing space, so depending on the spacing of the notes, this symbol can
get very squashed.  How can I add extra horizontal spacing to my function?

Alasdair

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