Re: mark text (not markup) to fill Rest bars?

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On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Rutger Hofman wrote:

> Good afternoon list,
> 
> in 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#index-_005ctextLengthOn
>  , the section on "Multi-measure rest markup", I find a method to have empty 
> bars (Rest bars) extend to the length of the ^\markup{ ... bla ... }. I would 
> like to have the same behaviour for \mark \markup{ ... bla ... }. Is that 
> possible?
> 
> Rutger Hofman
> Amsterdam
> Lilypond 2.14.2
> 

\relative c' {
 \override Score . RehearsalMark #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0)
 \override Score . RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
 \mark \markup "foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar"
 R1
}

Cheers,
MS