Re: Text crescendi with hidden line and their position

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Reinhold,

>  Is there any way to achieve a position of the "cresc." directly at the staff
>  (except for using ordinary markup text, which does not work e.g. in midi (and
>  also breaks if/when Lilypond one day gets a MusicXML backend)?

Vertical positioning of this is done by the DynamicLineSpanner object,
so all you need to do is override its Y-offset property:

\once \override DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-offset = #0

Regards,
Neil