Re: Something similar to textLengthOn

[Leo Correia de Verdier]

Thanks a lot! 

This is a good suggestion to achieve what I’m looking for. My final goal is 
actually to put scores in these markups, somewhat similar to what is discussed 
in this thread: 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00749.html . The 
purpose is to set a section of music where different instruments play in 
unrelated tempi and rhythm, unsynchronized. Now I have to fiddle with lyrics 
and Lyric context properties to make it align on the original staff.


> 3 aug. 2020 kl. 10:57 skrev Lukas-Fabian Moser <lfm@gmx.de>:
> 
> 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
>