another out-of-memory

[Keith OHara]

Another case that eats memory on Windows came up in the verification test
for issue 2910.   There was no problem on Linux, and small changes avoid 
the problem on Windows. 

I have not been able to minimize smaller than:

{a'^"This text is placed very close to the note"
 c^"This text is padded away from the previous text"
 c^"This text is placed close to the previous text" }