Re: 2 questions concerning skips and dynamics

[Thomas Ruedas]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:47, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> The duration of the skips is handled exactly as the duration of
> ordinary notes. If you insert some bar checks, you will see that
> the durations are probably not what you want:
Ok, thanks for confirming that.
> Since the last duration specified above the dynamics is the d'8,
> the duration of the first s is also an 8th note.
I don't think so: when I change the initial s into e.g. s2, the mf is 
still placed at the beginning, but the subsequent stuff is moved to 
the right. If things worked the way you say, this would imply that 
the automatic propagation of durations has a scope larger than the 
staff. I can't imagine that the developers would implement such a 
design flaw.
In fact, I didn't find a way to move the mf further to the right.
> You should note that the full template is a fairly ugly hack. There
[...]
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2005-08/msg00130.htm
Thanks again for the pointer, I'll try it out as an alternative later. 
However, it seems to me that the other problem I had, namely the 
ill-positioned text-version crescendo is not solved by that either. 
Is there a solution to that or is it a bug?
Sorry if these questions are quite basic, but I am still new to 
lilypond and with little time, I make only slow progress.
Thomas
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