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Re: Incomplete info on terminating hairpins in documentation


From: Thomas Morley
Subject: Re: Incomplete info on terminating hairpins in documentation
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 12:13:55 +0200

2016-08-06 1:12 GMT+02:00 Bas Ammerlaan <address@hidden>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Regarding the termination of hairpins (cresc. & decresc.): I was
> transcribing a piece of music and could't figure out why my hairpin would
> terminate to the right of the previous note instead of the note I attached
> "\!" to. Turns out it was because Lilypond tries to prevent ending hairpins
> on a downbeat.
>
> Apparently this is intended behaviour (though I mostly find it annoying),
> but it makes the information provided here faulty:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes#dynamics
>
> The sentence "A hairpin that is terminated with \! will end at the right
> edge of the note that has the \! assigned to it." is false or at best
> incomplete: the condition of the downbeat is not mentioned until the
> "Selected snippets" much lower on the page. This caused me to search around
> for half an hour to find out why my hairpin was not ending where I wanted
> it, since I didn't expect this information to be under "Selected snippets".
>
> Best,
>
> Bas.



Hi Bas,

thanks for the report.

It's now
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4952/
(with patch)

Cheers,
  Harm



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