Re: \textLengthOn - choosing which note to lengthen

[Trevor Daniels]

Chris Snyder wrote Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:12 PM


> I'm running into a situation where \textLengthOn isn't behaving like I 
> would expect it to. I have an organ piece where I'd like to put some 
> text between the staves for the manuals. The text is a bit too long, 
> however, so it hits the barline. Adding \textLengthOn seems to be the 
> right solution. Unfortunately, I can't get it to do anything other than 
> lengthen the space after the shortest note that occurs at the same time 
> as the text, even the shorter note is in a different voice than the text.
>
> The expected/desired behavior for me would be to have that command 
> lengthen the time interval for the note that the text is attached to - 
> if it was attached to a whole-note in a 4/4 bar, for instance, I'd 
> expect it to expand the whole bar to match the length of the text. 
> Instead, it lengthens the length of the shortest note in the bar.

The action of \textLengthOn can be better understood as extending
the length of the moment in time at which it occurs.  All notes
which occur at a later musical moment will be displaced to the end
of the text, whichever staff or voice they are in, in order to 
remain synchronous.

This doesn't help you with your problem though.  You can attach
two or more texts to a single note - they appear one above the
other.  Might this help?
  
> -Chris Snyder
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