Re: [Spam] [Spam] Re: Spanner right-hand text may disappear when padded

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David,

>> accel, rit, a tempo, etc in a close
>> sequence, but obviously tied to their start times, and all at the same
>> vertical offset. For individual, more time-compressed, parts (e.g. the
>> woodwind parts that start out with rests!), I need to explicitly avoid
>> the instructions getting partly on top of each other.
> 
> Doesn't \tempo work?

Not out of the box, and not without a pretty good knowledge of Lilypond 
tweaking:

%%%  SNIPPET ENDS
\version "2.19"
\language "english"
pileup = {
  \tempo "Start here" c''4
  \tempo "accel." c''
  \tempo "rit." c''
  \tempo "a tempo" c'’
}
\score { \pileup }
%%%  SNIPPET ENDS

Even if the user knows how to force sufficient horizontal spacing, there’s 
still the problem they won’t [with different notes] necessarily be “at the same 
vertical offset” as the OP wants.

And even if the user knows how to force the correct padding, there’s the 
problem that Urs — a very experienced Lilypond user — ran into just yesterday: 
"a tempo” (with a descender) will not be at the same vertical position as the 
other markings (which have no descenders), because Lily doesn’t baseline-align 
markups.

So, the simple answer to your question is: \tempo may not work for the OP.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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