Re: 2 questions concerning skips and dynamics

[Mats Bengtsson]

I would recommend you to first typeset your dynamics in a normal
stave attached to normal notes and make sure that you understand
exactly how they are positioned relative to the notes. Then, you can
simply replace the notes by skips and use them in the Dynamics
context instead. A good starting point, corresponding to what you
now have in your dynamics is:

\relative c'{
\time 2/4
c8\mf c4. \setTextCresc c\< c2 c4\f c\> c4\!
}

The misplaced text version crescendo is just one of several indications
that the template is a quick hack that would need polishing or an
complete redesign to work fully. It's really strange that nobody has
taken the time to revise it, since it apparently is used fairly often.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if the text version crescendi is
handled better by the alternative approach I referenced below.

 /Mats


Thomas Ruedas wrote:

> 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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