Re: Overlong extender

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 3/25/09 12:12 AM, "James E. Bailey" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Am 25.03.2009 um 02:26 schrieb Frederick Dennis:
> 
>> Dear All,
>> In the following extract from "The Preces and Responses"
>> by John Reading (d. 1692), the tenorTwoSnippet lyric "to"
>> has an over-long extender. Adding skips after it makes
>> the extender even longer. Is there any way of shortening
>>  it?
> 
> Can you give a bit more context? After paring down to just this, I'm having a
> little difficulty understand how this problem arises in the actual music. The
> extender is so long because there's no text after it, simply adding another
> syllable solves that problem. So, I ask for a bit more context, since I'm
> guessing in the actual music, there is text after the word to, and before as
> well.

This is a known issue.  See bug # 331.

<http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=331>

Carl