On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Federico Bruni <fedel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything in the > archives. Guess I'm using the wrong keywords. > > I'm writing a legenda for tablature and I'm using \markup over each bar to > explain the notation. > As you can see in the attached example, the markup blocks are moved > vertically to avoid collisions. I'd like to stretch the bars so that > there's enough room for markup. > > I don't want to use spacer rests. > Any advice is welcome. > > Thanks, > Federico >
Federico, You could try \textLengthOn (and \textLengthOff after); the manual has this to say about it: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#full-measure-rests and http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/writing-text#text-scripts To apply it to the whole measure, you could try something like this: << { c4 c c c } { \textLengthOn s1^"Here are some fine instructions" \textLengthOff } >> This could get cumbersome if you have to do it often. If you do have to use this often, I would separate the instructions into their own variable (which in my own personal practice ends up getting put into the variable I use for time and nearly everything that is not notes, dynamics, or articulations): instructions = { \time 4/4 \textLengthOn s1^"Do it this way and this way and that way." | \textLengthOff s1 | % no instructions in this measure, so it's spaced normally \textLengthOn s1^"More instructions for you here and here." } notes = { c4 c c c | c c c c | c c c c } \score { << { \instructions } { \notes } >> } If you need to change the length of the measure manually (e.g., if my suggestions don't work), there's always this: \once \override MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #24 ...but I'd be inclined to let the spacing be handled by Lilypond, if possible, rather than by counting picas. —Josiah _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
