Re: dynamic outside staff

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 3 giu 2015 alle 8:45, Gianmaria Lari 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> I would like that a "<" symbol span outside staff. This is my code
>
> \version "2.18.2"
> \time 4/4
> \relative {
> a\< b c d
> e\! f g a
> }

Do you mean that you want it to span over the bar line?
See the first snippet ("Setting hairpin behavior at bar lines"), 
scrolling down from here:
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes.html#dynamics


> I found in the documentation the following example:
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/outside_002dstaff-objects
>
> % Set details for later Text Spanner
> \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text
>     = \markup { \small \bold Slower }
> % Place dynamics above staff
> \dynamicUp
> % Start Ottava Bracket
> \ottava #1
> c'4 \startTextSpan
> % Add Dynamic Text and hairpin
> c4\pp\<
> c4
> % Add Text Script
> c4^Text |
> c4 c
> % Add Dynamic Text and terminate hairpin
> c4\ff c \stopTextSpan |
> % Stop Ottava Bracket
> \ottava #0
> c,4 c c c |
>
> This looks to me a very difficult example to understand. Can I 
> suggest to
> split this in multiple simplier example in the documentation?

That example must be complex because the chapter wants to show how to 
override several objects' position.
The easier way to have a better understanding is clicking on the 
example, copying the snippet and testing it in Frescobaldi, where you 
can use two-way point-and-click, change the snippet, etc.

It would be nice if the documentation had something similar, see:
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2578