On Sun, 2024-10-13 at 14:05 +0100, A Wons wrote: > Ah! I may have found the answer myself (should have looked more > thoroughly before asking!). Is adding yet anothe staff to each part > (a > "dynamics" staff) and adding a lot of You only need to add dummy notes in bars containing dynamic markings of which you want to control the horizontal placing (away from default position). Other bars can be empty. They can be long durations except where you want to make small adjustments when you will need shorter ones. E.g. Dotted half note, quarter note would be needed to start a cresc. three quarters of the way through a whole note.
> short dummy notes the recommended > way to do this? It would (no doubt) be possible to insert LilyPond syntax to, for example, shift the horizontal position of the start of a hairpin, and if you wished to do this a lot you could create a command to do this and put it in your menus. HTH Richard > > On 13/10/2024 13:21, A Wons wrote: > > I'm trying to typeset a score with a lot of short hairpins, eg > > cresc/decresc across a single long note or two tied notes. Is there > > an > > easy way to do this? It looks like it might be possible to insert > > Lilypond commands to do it (some complicated combimnation of > > \after?) > > but that would be quite fiddly. >
