Re: text crescendo

[Graham Percival]

On 27-Mar-05, at 3:58 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
> > That's useful info, but why is
> > \cresc c
> > equivalent to
> > c \setTextCresc \<
> >
> > ?  Why not go with a postfix \cresc?    (thus "\cresc" = 
> > "\setTextCresc
> > \<" )
>
> IMO, the hairpin and the cresc - - - are two styles of conveying the
> same information, so they should entered with in the same way (" \<
> "). Style settings are property settings, which should occur before
> the note is started.

Yes, they should be entered the same way -- that's my objection to
\cresc.  These lines produce the same thing:

{
  c'4 c'\< c'\! c'
  c'4 \cresc c' c'\! c'
}

but on the first line, you do \< after the note, while on the second 
line,
you do \cresc *before* the note.

From a programming standpoint, I don't think we should have any
  #(ly:export (make-event-chord (list cr)))
in ly/spanners-init.ly ; it messes up the postfix idea.  Just like we
changed slurs from "(a b)" to "a( b)", I think we should change
"\cresc a b\!" to "a\cresc b\!"

Cheers,
- Graham