Re: Extent of hairpins

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David,

> I find that X-offset affects both ends - in other words, it shifts the
> whole hairpin to the right of its default position by #X-offset staff spaces.

Correct; that’s what I was trying to say with

>> #'X-offset will effect where the left-hand side begins


i.e., it doesn’t affect the length of the hairpin. Sorry my wording wasn’t 
clear.

> As you say, bound-padding only apparently affects the right-hand end of
> a hairpin.  I'm not sure what the units are here: they seem to be about
> 1/4 of a staff space.

I seem to also recall that it works inconsistently if the hairpin ends on \! as 
opposed to an explicit dynamic.
(No time to test right now; sorry.)

Cheers,
Kieren.
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