Re: [Newbie]postioning text

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

David Symonds <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> This is perhaps a similar problem to what I get (an unanswered previous
> post), with chord names colliding... I've included a snippet below, which
> causes the chord names d/f# and g to collide using lilypond 1.4.2.

They don't seem to collide here (1.5.1), but that's maybe because the
snippet is too small, it's set fairly wide.  Have you tried setting
word-space?

  \paper {
    \translator { 
      \ChordNamesContext
      ChordName \override #'word-space = #1 
    }
  }

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