Thanks! I’ll look again. I didn’t tie them yet. I just layed them out next to the tenor (a Luna, regular headstock), and determined they’d be too short to tune. It’s probably me. At least I have a soprano I can put them on if I can’t figure out the tenor.
If you knot the bridge-ends of the strings, and do so with no more than 1/4" 'tail' at the end, you can then feed the strings into a small bead, and then into the hole of the bridge and over the top of the saddle. This method will use less string compared to if you tied them on the tie-bridge the normal way.
If there is enough length to get the other end of the string into the tuner's hole, and then a single wrap around the post, with the wrap on TOP of the tail that pokes out of the hole, with the next wrap going BELOW the tail poling out of the tuner, you will have enough string to get 3-4 wraps around the post, since it will stretch when tuning.
By having the first wrap ABOVE the tail, and all the rest BELOW the tail, as you tighten the string, the wraps will pinch the tail, very tight actually and the string should not slip out of the hole...
Otherwise if you have MORE string length, you can put the string thru the tuner hole, and then around the tuner 1/2-way and into the tuner hole again, and pull snug from both opposing ends on the post, and then keep tension on the string portion that goes to the bridge, and make sure that it winds UNDER and towards the wood of the headstock, and all should hold fine.
However, if the strings are too short for any of this, then I think you got a bum set that was cut too short at the factory, and I would either contact the vendor, or contact Martin as this is NOT the norm, based on my own experience...
Please report back what happens.