I've been struggling with spacing issues. In my example below, the second 
measure shows the default behavior, where the two markups are placed on top of 
each other. (If I was playing this, I would find it very confusing.) I would 
like to stretch the long note in the beginning of second measure, so that the 
two markups can fit next to each other.

I thought "textLenghtOn" would solve my problems but it seemingly just moves 
them somewhere else, here the other part (see first measure of the example). I 
also tried experimenting with "SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration" but it 
doesn't solve the problem and makes the spacing look pretty ridiculous after 
some point.

Any suggestions?

\version "2.18.2"

rit = \markup {\italic "rit." }
atempo = \markup {\italic "a tempo" }

tempos = {
\textLengthOn
s2^\atempo
s2^\rit
\textLengthOff
s2^\atempo
s2^\rit
}

notes = \relative c'{
c2. d8 b
c2. g8 b
}

othernotes = \relative c'{
e8 f g a g2 c2 b
}

\score {
  <<
  \new Staff <<\tempos \notes >>
  \new Staff {\othernotes}
  >>
}

Thanks in advance!

Erika

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