Hi Kieran, Many thanks indeed - that works a treat! How does one find out about these things? I had tried just
- \tweak extra-spacing-width #'(2 . 3) which hadn't worked. Clearly I needed the extra space property of text. Thanks again, Alasdair On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, 9:33 pm Kieren MacMillan, <kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote: > Hi Alasdair, > > > Lilypond sometimes doesn't recognize this symbol as needing space, so > depending on the spacing of the notes, this symbol can get very squashed. > How can I add extra horizontal spacing to my function? > > ttr = #(define-event-function (placement) (pair?) > #{ > -\tweak TextScript.extra-spacing-width #'(1 . 5) > -\tweak extra-offset #placement > -\markup { \fontsize #4 \musicglyph #"scripts.rcomma" } > #} ) > > ?? > > Hope that helps! > Kieren.