Re: Hairpins

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden>
To: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: Hairpins


> On 2012-10-21 18:04, David Kastrup wrote:> "Phil Holmes" 
> <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> Apart from using parallel spacer rests, is there any way to make a
> >> hairpin only one note long?
> >
> > You don't mean \accent?
>
> I think he really means a decrescenco hairpin on one note (which obviously 
> cannot be found in piano music, but is quite common in vocal or string 
> music).
>
>
> I.e. something like (in these examples, the measures are quite short, in 
> reality, these measures in the scores take at least twice the horizontal 
> space as these examples do):
>
> \new Voice \relative c'' { << { c1 } { s2\> s\!} >> }
>
> or:
>
> \new Voice \relative c'' { << { c1 } { s2 s4..\> s16\!} >> }
>
> or even (and no, this is NOT the \expressivo articulation):
>
> \new Voice \relative c'' { << { c1 } { s2\< s4..\> s16\! } >> }
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold


Thanks, Reinhold.  TBH this is what I was concerned about.  My main method 
of generating lilypond music is by converting from a GUI editor - 
Noteworthy.  Managing a conversion process which says "ah - the hairpin is 
only one note long so we need to mess about with a load of parallel music 
and sub-note value spacers" is not the easiest thing to do.  Shame lilypond 
does not support such a common notation with a simple mechanism.

--
Phil Holmes