Re: text crescendo

[Graham Percival]

On 7-Mar-05, at 3:43 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> It seems that the properties are reset at the end of each
> (de)crescendo, so it seems you have to specify it again
> every time. However, you can save same key strokes by using the
> predefined macro \cresc. For example
> \cresc c d e f \!
> is equivalent to
> c \setTextCresc \< d e f \!

That's useful info, but why is
\cresc c
equivalent to
c \setTextCresc \<

?  Why not go with a postfix \cresc?    (thus "\cresc" = "\setTextCresc 
\<" )


> Question to the bug-lilypond mailing list:
> - Why is it done this way (I see there's a comment in
>  ly/spanners-init.ly related to the same question)

No clue.

> - Why isn't this documented, if this is the way it should be?

No clue.  :)

If this is the way it should be, I'm happy to document it.  For now, I 
think
we should wait to hear from Han-Wen and Jan in a week.

Cheers,
- Graham