Re: long markups running off the right margin...

[Valentin Villenave]

2009/8/20 Arno Waschk <address@hidden>:
> <<some other bars of music>>  c4^"longish playing indication ma non troppo"
> d2.
>
> so that if the bar, which would only take little space with its only two
> notes, appears towards the end of a line, the text line will run off the
> right end of the staff, and often out of the paper itself.

Have you read the "known issues" paragraph of
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Writing-text.html#Text-scripts
?

Regards,
Valentin