Hi Rutger,
What setting can I apply to get correct horizontal spacing in the second case?
One possibility:
\new GrandStaff \with {
\consists Keep_alive_together_engraver
\override LyricText.extra-spacing-width = #empty-interval
} <<
Not a big fan of this whole approach, though…
Rationale: I use this Lyrics tric in my MarkLines to create a spanner with the
spanner elements at specific times, and also at a fixed vertical offset. I
cannot use David Nalesnik's textSpannerInnerTexts because their spacing of the
words doesn't depend on the musical time. I cannot use multiple TextSpanners,
because (at least in parts with few or no notes) the vertical offset of the
texts is not constant: I saw situations where they are stacked 3 high.
Use extra-spacing-height and -width (and related properties and macros) to
force horizontal shifting — that will correct the stacking problem.
Then you’ll be using TextSpanners (as you should be) rather than [overloading]
Lyrics.
Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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