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

[Simon Albrecht]

Hi Chris,

we use to always keep communication on-list, except in special 
circumstances. Thus everybody will be able to follow and see whether 
there has been a solution, or look it up in the archives. So ‘reply all’.


On 01.11.2016 23:02, Christopher Heckman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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
> I haven't tried these yet, but it looks like the hairpin would extend
> to the end of the bar; in my fix, it ends about 3/4 of the way there.

In that case, another opportunity to step forward with the now much-used 
\after function, here to be applied as
\after 3/4 \! c1\>

See attachment.
Best, Simon

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