One way would be to use another voice for the dynamics:
%%%
\version "2.19"
\language "english"
\score {
<<
\new Staff {
<< { c'2 a2 c'2 f'2 } \\ { s2^\< s2 s2^\mf\> s4 s4^\p } >>
<< { c'2 a2 c'2 f'2 } \\ { s2^\< s2 s2^\mf\> s4 s4^\p } >>
}
\new Staff {
a2^\< f2 a2^\mf^\> c'4( bf) ^\p
a2^\< f2 a2^\mf^\> c'4( bf)^\p
}
\addlyrics {
Al -- le -- lu -- ia
Al -- le -- lu -- ia
}
>>
}
%%%
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Knute Snortum
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On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 12:53 PM Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've written a choral work. There are some places in the score where I
> have a four-voice choir singing Alleluia on successive half notes. I've
> notated a crescendo hairpin to \mf followed by a decrescendo hairpin to
> \p on the final half note. Some times LP engraves the score such that
> the decrescendo hairpin is clearly visible, but other times the spacing
> between the 3rd and 4th half notes is so minimal that that hairpin is,
> well, useless as a visual symbol.
>
> This MWE shows what I mean. The dynamics for the upper voice show the
> barely visible decrescendo hairpin while the one for the lower voice is
> what's desired.
>
> Ideally I simply (!) need to move/shift the upper voice \p and hairpin
> end one quarter note to the right. Yet how to do that?
>
> %% MWE
> \version "2.19"
> \language "english"
> \score {
> <<
> \new Staff {
> c'2^\< a2 c'2^\mf^\> f'2^\p
> c'2^\< a2 c'2^\mf^\> f'2^\p
> }
> \new Staff {
> a2^\< f2 a2^\mf^\> c'4( bf) ^\p
> a2^\< f2 a2^\mf^\> c'4( bf)^\p
> }
> \addlyrics {
> Al -- le -- lu -- ia
> Al -- le -- lu -- ia
> }
> >>
> }
> %%
>
> --
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> of human existence.”
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>
