#808 Enhancement: \textLengthOn mode for Lyrics

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: v.villenave
Originally owned by: v.villenave

On several occasions, Jiri Zurek has expressed the need for a
\textLengthOn-like feature for lyrics.

With Lily's current behavior, long syllables that occur after a melisma or
a text-less section are may be placed below several notes, which makes it
diffult to tell exactly which one of these notes the syllable belongs to.

See for instance this picture provided by Jiri, that demonstrates Lily's
default behavior and the desired output:
http://www.nabble.com/file/p21786429/non_honored_longtext_srovnani.png

It is even worse with gregorian music:
http://www.nabble.com/file/p21786429/sanctus2.8.4_Srovnani.png

Please read Jiri's full post on
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-02/msg00004.html
and the discussion on
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-01/msg00977.html

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Originally posted by: simon.al...@mail.de

The image links are broken, unfortunately.

Anyway, I think issue 2453 is a much better approach to the same problem.

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Originally posted by: simon.al...@mail.de

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Mergedinto: 2453
Status: Duplicate