Re: \textLengthOn - choosing which note to lengthen

[Chris Snyder]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the response. That makes sense (at least from a programmatic 
standpoint).

It seems to me that the documentation (which has been tremendously 
improved over the last year - thanks Graham et al) could be a bit 
clearer on this. Perhaps including a blurb like the following:

"Note that \textLengthOn does not necessarily increase the spacing of 
the note that the text is attached to. Rather, the shortest moment in 
time when the text occurs will get the added space. For instance, in 4/4 
time if text is added to a whole-note while another staff contains 
quarter-notes, the space will be added between the first and second 
quarter-notes of the measure."

If that (or a variant of it) is at all useful, please feel free to use 
it in the docs.

-Chris