Re: Something similar to textLengthOn

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Leo,

> Does a command or function exist that would force the horizontal spacing to 
> adapt to a markup, something like textLengthOn, but that would only take the 
> current context into account? If not, would it make sense to try to create one? 
> (Asking just due to my lack of understanding of the inner workings of spacing).

I'm not sure I understand your intentions correctly. Do you want the 
next minim (half note) to wait for the text markup to be completed, but 
the quavers (eighth notes) should spread evenly between the minims?

This basically is the behaviour of Lyrics, so one might fake something 
like that by:

\version "2.20.0"
\new Staff <<
  \new Voice {
    \textLengthOn
  f''2 ^\markup "I would like these markups to force "
  \textLengthOff
  f''2 ^\markup "the spacing only when a new note "
  f''2 ^\markup "appears in the same voice/context"
  }
  \new Voice {
    \repeat unfold 8 c'8 c'2
  } >>
%%%%%%

<<
\new Staff = "mystaff" <<
  \new Voice = "leading" {
  f''2
  f''2
  f''2
  }
  \new Voice {
    \repeat unfold 8 c'8 c'2
  } >>
  \new Lyrics \with {
    alignAboveContext = "mystaff"
    \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
  } \lyricsto "leading" {
    "I would like these markups to force"
    "the spacing only when a new note"
    "appears in the same voice/context"
  }
>>
%%%%%%

But of course using lyrics for this has side effects (namely, forcing 
all the markups to one align vertically).

Best
Lukas