Re: Dynamics across line breaks

[Erik Sandberg]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 22.44, Christian Hitz wrote:
> Am 22.01.2006 um 21:56 schrieb Graham Percival:
> > On 22-Jan-06, at 7:57 AM, Christian Hitz wrote:
> >> in case a hairpin dynamic happens during a line break and ends on
> >> the first note after the line break, it is only drawn up to the
> >> line break.
> >
> > Not a bug; it's a feature!  :)
> >
> > There should be an internal property you can turn on/off to draw
> > the end on the beginning of the next line.  I complained about this
> > because IMO they look terribly ugly.  I should have documented this
> > property, though... I'll fix the docs later today.  Before that
> > happens, check the Internals documentation about Hairpins to see
> > what it is.
>
>   (\override Score.Hairpin #'after-line-breaking = ##t) turns on the
> (one-note) cresc/decresc on the next line.
>
> However, I'm not sure that this behaviour of omitting the short ends
> of the hairpins as a default is a good idea. With the crescendo, the
> performer has no way of knowing that it should continue for another
> note, and the open decrescendo looks awkward too.

I agree, especially with the decrescendo point. I'll let the bug stay in the 
cvs repository.

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Erik Sandberg
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