Crescendo too small

[Urs Liska]

Hi all,

I'll investigate into this some more but I'd like to ask one question up 
front:
Sometimes I get the "warning: crescendo too small". It often happens 
when there is a rather wide DynamicText in front of the hairpin, and the 
hairpins can be extremely short - up to a vertical line as shown in the 
attached image (in case of doubt: it's the line between the \p and the 
\f ;-) )

I wonder why LilyPond can warn me about this but doesn't simply make the 
crescendo longer instead.

Any comments?
Urs

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