Re: Automatic lengthening of Lyrics extenders

[David Wright]

On Thu 21 Feb 2019 at 16:40:22 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> 
> > 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.

It does depend on the genre. In barbershop, it's quite usual to print
extenders on single notes, and they're frequent because of the style:
<<
We love to sing like this, sing like this
We love to sing like this________________
>>

The problem of anchoring is recognised for dynamics, and fixed
by using empty chords as attachments. But AFAIK there's no
equivalent for lyrics because they don't attach to empty chords.
I think it's a real lack.

Some people suggest hidden notes, but that messes up the midi.
NullVoice works well, but requires a fair amount of work, and you
end up with another voice to keep synchronised when editing.
I tried the aftergrace method mentioned here last year, but the
extenders seem to end up too long compared with those around them.
(And again the midi is affected.)

Cheers,
David.