Re: Shortening hairpins

[Pierre Perol-Schneider]

Hi Andrew,

I think I missed this discussion, cannot answer to your questions.

Anyway sometime I use:

\version "2.18.2"

{
   c'4
  -\tweak bound-padding #7.0
  \< c'2. c'4\!
}

Cheers,

Pierre

2015-04-08 9:02 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>:

Recently there was a discussion about this. Now I need to do it. The answers in the discussion, whilst erudite, seem very kludgy, and not appropriate for my score.

Why is there no simple way to shorten a hairpin in lilypond? It’s easy to use shorten-pair to adjust tuplet bracket lengths. Why don’t hairpins follow a similar method?

It was mentioned that the stencil code is in C++. For some time I have been looking for something worthwhile to do in the internals to get to the point where I could contribute something. Is this a candidate? Does the stencil need rewriting in Scheme? I am sure there are other more worthy tasks, but I happen to really need this one at present. Should this discussion be on the lilypond-devel list instead?

So what is the technical reason why this is so difficult? From an end user point of view a hairpin is just an object that should be able to be resized easily.

Andrew

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