Hello All,
Thank you for the good suggestions. Forgive me, I was trying to use the tiny examples format, but I had copied the version on the example of tiny examples, which of course is very old.
I tried the advice of creating a new scope for a spacing section, i.e.
%%%%%%
\version "2.18.2"
\newSpacingSection{
\override Score.SpacingSpanner.spacing-increment = #40
%%% my music here %%%%
}
%%%%%%
However that only works for a few bars. Here is my no longer tiny example:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.18.2"
{
\time 3/8
cis16 r8. gis8
\time 5/8 \tuplet 3/2{ c![ e,] r8}
\tuplet 3/2{ c' ees, r8} r8
\bar "||"
\time 4/4
\newSpacingSection {
\override Score.SpacingSpanner.spacing-increment = #40
\once \override TextScript.stencil =
#(make-stencil-boxer 0.1 0.3 ly:text-interface::print)
gis8\p\>-\markup{\italic "Step across Soprano to the right"}^"D" r8 bes8 r8 bes r8\!\pp\< c8 r8
gis8\mp\!\> r16 e16~ e16\pp\! r8.
d8->\staccato\mf r8
%%%%%%sf-p%%%%%%%%%
bes'->\sfp\< r8\!\mf
r4 a8\sp\> r8 \grace{ gis8} c!8 r8 f,8\!\ppp r16 g16->
\tuplet 4/3{g[->\mp ees-> d-> r32 g32~\p\staccato->]}
g16 \tuplet 4/3{ a8[\pp( ees d8.) b'16->\sfp~](}
\tuplet 4/3{ b16[ g8\pp) a16(->\sfp g16\pp d8) b'16~->\sfp(]} \tuplet 4/3{ b16[ g8\pp ees d f16~]}
f16) r16
r8
\tuplet 4/3{ d8\pp f ees\mf d\sp} \tuplet 4/3{ r16[ b'8( a16 ees8 d)]}
r8
\tuplet 3/2{ b'!8\p g-> r8} r4
}
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
I think it is because I have an incorrect not duration, but I have checked the first few bars again and again and they seem correct.