Re: Making a Hairpin end close to the end of a Score

[Jay Anderson]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Christopher Heckman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I stumbled on this hack, and it doesn't appear to be anywhere online.
>
> As is, you can't have a hairpin run until the very end of a score; it
> will stop before the last note. You also can't add \! to a \bar;
> Lilypond complains that it is not a musical event.
>
> The idea is to use \afterGrace, with an invisible grace note.
>
> \absolute {
>     c'2\> \afterGrace d' { s16\! } |
>     }
>
> MIDI translates this as you would expect, without an extra note at the end.
>
> However, this will not work if the hairpin starts on the last printed note.

I tend to use this:

c1\> s1*0\! |

-----Jay