Shifting hairpins' starting/ending points etc [was: Re: Lilypond lobbying?]

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

On Sun 28 Aug 2011, 11:21 Janek Warchoł wrote:
> 2011/8/26 Dmytro O. Redchuk <address@hidden>:
> > On Fri 26 Aug 2011, 13:54 David Kastrup wrote:
> >> So maybe the "spacer rest" terminology is not doing anybody a favor.
> >>
> >> Would you have felt more comfortable if my example had used "\skip"
> >> instead of "spacer rests"?
> > No, not sure. Why "music" should contain any "skips" to be "typeset" nicely?
> >
> > Well, really, excuse me :-)
> >
> > I wanted to say, that, very probably, "\<{...}" would be really great
> > (to shift starting point right). And that spacers are, as for me, a bit
> > "innatural".
> 
> How do you like syntax like this:
> e1 \< #0.25 \f #0.5 \> f2 \! #0.5
> which would mean this
> \new Voice << { e1 f2 } {s4 s4 \< s2 \f \> s4 s4 \! } >>
> ?
I would say, that for a new person who knows nothing about the syntax, the
former variant offers much less "conventions" to learn then the latter.

As for me, sorry.

> Some of your concerns are already on my to-do list, but they are
> waiting for GLISS.
They're not mine, surely,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-08/msg00553.html :-)

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