Re: More Centred Dynamics

[Mats Bengtsson]

Will Oram wrote:
> (Sorry if this gets reposted; I seem to be having a nasty habit  lately 
> of sending lilypond e-mails from my nonregistered e-mail  address!)
>
> I tried Mats' template for centred piano dynamics but found it to be  
> off-balance. Maybe I will try later with greater tweaking.

What do you mean by off-balance? When preparing the example, I certainly
didn't spend much time fine-tuning the parameters to get the dynamics
exactly centered, just wanted to show the idea.

> Also, do  the
> dynamics in this template apply themselves to MIDI, or is it  functional 
> only in layout?

In the MIDI output, the dynamics will only affect the music in the
same Voice context by default. This means that if you have

\score {
   \context PianoStaff <<
     \context Staff=righthand <<
       \new Voice \righthand_upper
       \new Voice {\righthand_lower \dynamics}
     >>

     \context Staff=lefthand <<
       \clef bass
       \new Voice \lefthand
     >>
   >>
 ...

then the dynamics will only apply to the \righthand_lower voice.
One solution is to make a separate \score{...} for the MIDI output.

   /Mats