Re: Feature request: attach notation elements to barlines

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hello Trevor,

> it's possible that what we're really looking for here isn't the  
> ability to attach to *barlines* but intead

I'd like to suggest that we're really looking for the ability to  
arbitrarily attach a duration to things such as hairpins -- for  
example, I'd like to be able to say

    c1\<4.

and have a whole note C with a hairpin that only goes a dotted  
quarter's worth of the horizontal extent of the note. The need to  
attach extra voices with skip notes, etc., is just an unfortunate  
hack -- not an inevitability in a notation program.

Best wishes,
Kieren.