Re: weird horizontal-spacing problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

It indeed seems as if you have hit a weird bug. I send a copy to the 
bug-lilypond
mailing list and note that the following short example shows the same bug:

\version "2.9.14"
\score{
 \new GrandStaff
 <<
   \new Staff = trebleStaff \relative c' {
     \key aes  \major
     \time 2/4
     <<
        {f8 bes \emptyText ees ^"Immer staerker und lebhafter" f }
        \\
        { d, bes' bes aes }
     >>

}
   \new Lyrics \lyricmode {zu,8 und nur ein }
 >>
\layout{ragged-right = ##t }
}


However, the bug also seems related to the fact that you don't use 
\lyricsto.
You can easily use \lyricsto even in a situation like this where the 
sopranos
occasionally split into divisi. See the first example of Sect. "Divisi 
Lyrics"
in the manual (just leave out the lyrics for the split part). See also the
section on "Explicitly Instantiating Voices". Actually, here comes a
modified version of the previous example using \lyricsto, which also shows
how to do the settings to get bar numbers every 5th bar line (all 
settings like
these have to be done within a context, they can't be done at the top 
level of
the \score block.


\score{
 \new GrandStaff
 <<
   \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 5)    
   \override Score.BarNumber  #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible
   \new Staff = trebleStaff \new Voice = upper \relative c' {
     \key aes  \major
     \time 2/4
     f2
     <<
        {\voiceOne f8 bes \emptyText ees ^"Immer staerker und 
lebhafter" f }
        \new Voice { \voiceTwo d, bes' bes aes }
     >> \oneVoice
     f2
}
   \new Lyrics \lyricsto upper {zu,8 und nur ein }
 >>
\layout{ragged-right = ##t }
}

  /Mats

David Griffel wrote:

> I'm a beginner with lilypond, have learnt a lot from the 
> documentation, but here's a problem I can't solve.
>
> I'm writing the score of a piano song, with lyrics between the staves. 
> The music has verbose performance instructions at various points, 
> which I've done like this:
>
>          f bes \emptyText ees
>          ^ "Immer staerker und lebhafter"
>          f
>
> Mostly this works fine.  But the text above appears in the last line 
> of the song, and the result is a really ugly large horizontal space in 
> the music, see    http://www.zen22109.zen.co.uk/screenshot-1.jpg
>
> For the .ly file see  http://www.zen22109.zen.co.uk/geheim__.ly
> I've marked the relevant bit with %  HERE IS THE PROBLEM
>
> I've searched the online documentation, and the only helpful thing 
> I've found is \emptyText, which doesn't work here, and a statement 
> somewhere that lilypond has no way of adjusting horizontal spacing (!!)
>
> Comments and attempts to diagnose:
>
> *  inserting text earlier in the score works perfectly
>
> *  the problem does not go away if I use \ragged-right, see 
> http://www.zen22109.zen.co.uk/screenshot-2.jpg
>
> *  the problem goes away if I don't print the lyrics: spacing is then OK
>
> *  the problem goes away if I comment out the text: % ^ "..".
> So it's not purely a lyrics problem.
>
> *  I don't use  \lyricsto  because the upper stave has some sections 
> in a single voice and other sections in two voices, so there's no 
> unique voice to attach the lyrics to.
>
> I hope it's not some really stupid beginner's mistake . . . well 
> actually I hope it _is_, because then it'll be easy to fix.  Any help 
> will be much appreciated,
>
> David Griffel
>
>
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