Issue 808 in lilypond: Enhancement: \textLengthOn mode for Lyrics

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New issue 808 by v.villenave: Enhancement: \textLengthOn mode for Lyrics
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=808

On several occasions, Jiri Zurek has expressed the need for a
\textLengthOn-like feature for lyrics.

With Lily's current behavior, long syllables that occur after a melisma or
a text-less section are may be placed below several notes, which makes it
diffult to tell exactly which one of these notes the syllable belongs to.

See for instance this picture provided by Jiri, that demonstrates Lily's
default behavior and the desired output:
http://www.nabble.com/file/p21786429/non_honored_longtext_srovnani.png

It is even worse with gregorian music:
http://www.nabble.com/file/p21786429/sanctus2.8.4_Srovnani.png

Please read Jiri's full post on
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-02/msg00004.html
and the discussion on
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-01/msg00977.html

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