[Lilypond-auto] Issue 3092 in lilypond: suppressed chords still take place

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New issue 3092 by elu...@gmail.com: suppressed chords still take place
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3092
Jim Long reports weird note spacing behavior with long chordnames:  
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Layout-behaviour-arising-from-set-chordChanges-t-td138934.html

in this example the spacing follows the length of the hidden chord names  
and the result is a quite irregular spacing of the notes.
<<
  \new ChordNames \chordmode {
    \set chordChanges = ##t
    aes1:7.5-9- | q4 q4 q2 | q1 | q8 q q q q q q q
  }
  \new Staff \relative c' \repeat unfold 32 {ces8}


here the output runs off the page (due to the reduced width of the first  
line):
<<
  \new ChordNames \chordmode {
    \set chordChanges = ##t
    aes8:m7.5-9- q q q q q q q
  }
  \new Staff \relative c' \repeat unfold 8 {ces8}


one suggestion is to set the stencil of hidden chord names to ##f.

another is to introduce sth similar to textLengthOn so that the user could  
choose.