Re[2]: \textLengthOn in polyphony and over MultiMeasureRests

[Trevor]

Urs, you wrote 30/07/2018 11:07:44
> Hm, I thought I finally had the solution, based on ideas from an 
> earlier post by you and the one by Trevor:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \new Staff \relative {
>   <<
>     {
>       \override Staff.NoteColumn.X-offset = 10
>       c''2 c
>     }
>     \new Voice {
>       <>^\markup " A pretty long text that should extend the measure  "
>     }
>   >>
> % uncomment to make things break ...
> %{
>   <<
>     {
>       c8 c c c c2
>     }
>     \new Voice {
>       <>^\markup " A pretty long text that should extend the measure  "
>     }
>   >>
> %}
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> This works perfectly for one measure (and is totally agnostic of what 
> happens in the "music" voice), but as soon as you add (uncomment) the 
> second measure, things overlap again. Inserting \textLengthOn again 
> makes the markup push notes around. So I'm still not moving forward 
> here ...
I've not been following this thread closely, so this comment may be 
totally irrelevant, but does this help at all?

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/opera-and-stage-musicals#dialogue-over-music

It would suggest:

{
  <<
    \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
      "A"4 " pretty long text that should extend the "4*2 "measure"4
      "A"4 " pretty long text that should extend the "4*2 "measure"4
    }
    \new Staff \relative {
      c''2 c
      c8 c c c c2
    }
  >>
}

\paper {
  ragged-right = ##t
}

You could break up the text in other ways, of course.

The other Trevor

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