On 24.01.2010, at 14:05, Phil Holmes wrote:
Hello - my first post.
However, I can't find a way of making a diminuendo mark appear within
the LilyPond notation. An example of the sort of thing I'm trying to do
is at http://www.holmessoft.co.uk/homepage/images/ RestChords.gif
I've translated this to LilyPond as shown at the bottom of the page.
However, the dim. marking (^\>) is flagged as "warning: unterminated
decrescendo". I can't find anywhere where I can place the \> and the \!
to make the dim. show on the page and to avoid the error. Advice
gratefully received.
Hello
I see two problems with your diminuendo.
1 The dim. starts and ends on the same beat: essentially it's <<{s2\>}
\\{s4\! s}>>. That gets translated as, start a diminuendo on the first
half note and end it on the first quarter note. If you want it to be one
beat long, you only need s4\> s\!.
2 The dim. crosses voices. Remeber that the <<{}\\{}>> is just a short
form for <<\new Voice = "1"{\voiceOne}\\\new Voice = "2"{\voiceTwo}>>.
So, what you have is <<\new Voice ="1"{\voiceOne s2 \>}\\\new Voice = "2"
{\voiceTwo s4\! s}>>. I'd imagine you also get an error along the lines
of "Warning: cannot terminate (de)crescendo".
If you don't want to create a separate voice to have dynamics (which is
often very useful), and you want the dim. to be two beats long, then s2\>
s\! is what you want.
I've replaced all note names with spacer rests since they work just as
well, and you can put in the notes that you want.
Hope this helps you.
James
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