I'm a beginner with lilypond, have learnt a lot from the documentation,
but here's a problem I can't solve.
I'm writing the score of a piano song, with lyrics between the staves.
The music has verbose performance instructions at various points, which
I've done like this:
f bes \emptyText ees
^ "Immer staerker und lebhafter"
f
Mostly this works fine. But the text above appears in the last line of
the song, and the result is a really ugly large horizontal space in the
music, see http://www.zen22109.zen.co.uk/screenshot-1.jpg
For the .ly file see http://www.zen22109.zen.co.uk/geheim__.ly
I've marked the relevant bit with % HERE IS THE PROBLEM
I've searched the online documentation, and the only helpful thing I've
found is \emptyText, which doesn't work here, and a statement somewhere
that lilypond has no way of adjusting horizontal spacing (!!)
Comments and attempts to diagnose:
* inserting text earlier in the score works perfectly
* the problem does not go away if I use \ragged-right, see
http://www.zen22109.zen.co.uk/screenshot-2.jpg
* the problem goes away if I don't print the lyrics: spacing is then OK
* the problem goes away if I comment out the text: % ^ "..".
So it's not purely a lyrics problem.
* I don't use \lyricsto because the upper stave has some sections in
a single voice and other sections in two voices, so there's no unique
voice to attach the lyrics to.
I hope it's not some really stupid beginner's mistake . . . well
actually I hope it _is_, because then it'll be easy to fix. Any help
will be much appreciated,
David Griffel
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