RE: Contolling Hairpin spans again

[Peter Gentry]

 Thanks Kieren that does help a bit but I may have to live with the long 
hairpin ascetic (does this qualify something that needs a
better Lilypond solution).

Midi is very useful to weed out missed accidentals and other errors and unless 
the hairpins are in the same places in all staves
this would not be possible.

The only way I can see to handle this is to have a separate dynamics staff for 
each part but this is a big pain in any sizable
score. It can be done if you start in NoteWorthy complete all the dynamics  and 
convert to Lilypond using Phil Holmes' excellent
NWCTXT2Ly.exe or possibly just use the blank dynamics staff to input hairpins 
in Lilypond. 

It's a bit messy however you do it.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:address@hidden 
>Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 2:18 PM
>To: Peter Gentry
>Cc: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: Contolling Hairpin spans again
>
>Hi Peter,
>
>> I would like to reduce the span of the hairpin in the third 
>bar so that it does not reach to the crotchet - is this possible?
>
>Here are two solutions:
>
>\version "2.16.2"
>
>\paper { ragged-right = ##f }
>
>\relative c'' {
>\clef "treble"
>\time 3/4
>r2  e4\pp-\tweak #'minimum-length #8.0 \< ~ 
>e2\> e4-\tweak #'minimum-length #6.0 \< ~   
>e2*1/2\> s4\! e4
>d2.  
>}
>
>
>\relative c'' {
>\clef "treble"
>\time 3/4
>r2  e4\pp-\tweak #'minimum-length #8.0 \< ~ 
>e2\>  e4-\tweak #'minimum-length #6.0 \< ~   
><< { e2\! e4 } \new Voice { s4\> s4\! s4 } >> d2.  
>}
>
>The first may be a bit counterintuitive, and will mess up MIDI 
>output, but is easier to type.
>The second is a little more intuitive, but the voice-juggling 
>can get frustrating, and it's harder to type (though a music 
>function would reduce the effort).
>
>Hope this helps!
>Kieren.=