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