Thanks Michael.
I have been toying around with calculated note contents. It works OK. The approach still requires (at least) two separate lines of screen space - one for the note Label and one for the note Contents. I've been trying to preserve screen space by having the note take up a single line, and i mostly convinced that that isn't possible.
On a tangential note - any idea how to format the calculated text of a note's comments? I've tried adding the html formatting within the 'concat' function, but it seems to be ignored. For example, this has no impact on the color or size of the text:
concat("<font color=blue size='small'>",${starttime},"00 - ", ${starttime}, "14</font>")
and inserted the concat function between the <font></font> tags forces a compile time error.
Thanks again.