Re: Hairpin with pro/preceeding text

[Mark Knoop]

At 02:16 on 02 Oct 2013, EdBeesley wrote:
>See example below from Sibelius (just look at those horrible default
>slurs, ewwww!)
>
>I've tried just ending a hairpin early and adding markup but the
>result is sloppy and needs lots of tweaking. 
>
>If possible I don't want to use the snippet that adds text under the
>hairpins as the frequency of this motif would make the all the bonus
>text a bit of an eyesore, imo. 

The padding needs some tweaking, but this pretty much works:

pocoMarkup = \markup \normal-text \italic "poco"
poco = #(make-dynamic-script pocoMarkup)

{ <<
  \repeat unfold 32 { c''16 }
  { s4\< s4 s4 s4 s4\!\poco\> s4 s4 s4\! }
>> }

-- 
Mark Knoop