Re: Tweaking Hairpin shape

[Thomas Morley]

2018-02-06 16:10 GMT+01:00 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
>> Sure, I attached a few from here
>> <https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/23160>
>
> Thanks, but in this score there is not a single heavily rotated
> hairpin; I would say that the differences are not of any importance.
>
>> <https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/23074>.
>
> Oh, and an orchestral score doesn't contain heavily rotated hairpins
> by its very nature.  What I see here is very irregular.
>
>> Of course there are many more, in these and other scores.
>
> Hmm.  Here's a counterexample that contains `steep' hairpins
> (cf. page 6 bottom, page 23 bottom, page 24 top, etc., etc.) – and the
> ends are not vertically aligned.
>
>   https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/246876
>
> The exception, however, is a broken hairpin, page 30 – here I agree
> that the continuation part should start (or end) vertically aligned.
> Or may only `could' instead of `should', as for example page 38
> demonstrates.
>
> On the other hand, it probably solely depends on the typesetter:
> page 40 contains steep hairpins that are all aligned...
>
> My conclusion: It could be a useful feature to have the ends of
> rotated hairpins vertically aligned.  However, I wouldn't like to have
> this as the default.
>
> I'm CCing this e-mail to `bug-lilypond' so that this feature request
> can be added to our issue database.
>
>
>     Werner

I'm a little late to the party this evening...

Though, vertically aligned Hairpins were already discussed (a little)
during code review of Ferneyhough hairpins
https://codereview.appspot.com/7615043
but postponed.
For an image see comment #2
I'm pretty sure they could still be implemented. `elbowed-hairpin' has
it's own limitations, though

Cheers,
  Harm