Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
Your proposed text shows that you don't quite understand how \textLengthOn works from a LilyPond point of view. Your terminology is not quite right, so we'll need to change the text a bit before we put it in the manual. I hope you'll not mind that.
Please feel free to modify it in whatever way you see fit.
\textLengthOn applies to a musical moment, not a note. A musical moment starts at an instant in time of the score, and includes all events that occur at that instant. A musical moment ends when the next musical moment begins, or when the first event occurs is not simultaneous with the current moment.
Your explanation is helpful - perhaps something like that should be in the doc as well? Looking at the docs some more, it seems that the idea of musical moments isn't explained anywhere (at least not as well as you've just explained it to me).
So, in the example, the first musical moment contains the c4 in the treble cleff, the c1 in the bass clef, and the markup. The second musical moment contains the e in the treble clef. The effect of \textLengthOn is to make the first musical moment take as much horizontal space as the markup. While it appears that \textLengthOn adds space to the shortest note, this is incorrect. It is not the duration of the note in the current moment that matters, but the timing of the first note to follow the current moment.
This seems pedantic to me - isn't the time that elapses before the next musical moment going to be equal to the length of the shortest note/skip/rest in the current moment?
Perhaps this modified version of your example helps to explain the concept. \score...
That looks fine to me. I think I've understood it better than demonstrated in the example I provided; your version is easier to understand.
Thanks for taking the time to work with me on this. Your attention to detail on even such a minor element is appreciated.
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