hairpinToBarline problem

[Lasse Rempe]

Hello - sorry if this is a newbie question, but I couldn't find any 
information.

According to the documentation, the standard behavior is to end a 
hairpin when the ending note falls on the first beat of the bar, but 
this doesn't seem to be happening for me.

Worse, Lilypond doesn't seem to recognize the 'hairpinToBarline' 
property at all, and in fact the example file 'hairpin-to-barline.ly' 
doesn't compile like it should. Has there been a change in LilyPond 
which hasn't been documented?

In any case, it seems to me that there should really be a command 
which makes the hairpin end *before* the next note. I realize there 
are some possible workarounds (using spacer notes, or 
make-dynamic-script to create an empty dynamic mark), but something 
like this which happens quite regularly should really have a default 
solution (in my opinion).

Thanks in advance for your help!