Re: Automatic lengthening of Lyrics extenders

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Michael,

> However when there is a long note (e.g. full, or breve or such) the current 
> situation leaves room for improvement (to my knowledge).

For untied notes (like single whole notes), the convention is not to have 
extenders.

If you want to break with convention, I suggest using a separate voice to 
control extenders, e.g.:

{
  <<
    \new Staff <<
      { c''1 2. 2. 1. }
      \new NullVoice = "extenders" { c''8( 8 8 8 8 8 8 8) c8( 8 8 8 8 8) }
      \new Lyrics \lyricsto "extenders" { bla __ bla __ bla __ bla __ }
    >>
    \new Staff { c''8( c'' c'' c'' c'' c'' c'' c'') c''8( c'' c'' c'' c'' c'') }
    \addlyrics { bla __ bla __ bla __ bla __ }
  >>
}

Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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