Re: Manually control note spacing?

[Phil Holmes]

Checkout \textLengthOn and see if it does what you want.

On 05/01/2024 14:50, Robert Hickman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make an example showing mordent symbols with text
> labels. I want the note positions spaced so that the text is all on
> one line, with notes placed as needed to fit around it.
>
> The easiest way I can think of doing that would be to put manually
> sized 'gap fillers' between the notes which is something I often do in
> LaTeX, but I can't find any way of doing that in lilypond - it only
> seems possible to change spacing globally?
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> \header {tagline = ""}
> {
>      \numericTimeSignature
>      \time 4/4
>      a'4\mordent^"Mordent"
>      a'4\upmordent^"Upper Mordent"
>     a'4\downmordent^"Lower Mordent"
> }