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

[Simon Albrecht]

On 31.10.2016 06:10, Jay Anderson wrote:
> 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\! |

Or you can use an empty chord:
c1 <>\!

Best, Simon