On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 12:12 AM Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > At 11:59 06/08/2021 -0700, Knute Snortum wrote: > >I have a minor quibble. If you have a dynamic hairpin under a chord > >with a second interval, the hairpin extends a little to the left (to > >cover the whole chord?) I think it should only extend to the stem. > >I'm not an expert in engraving but the sheet music I've seen seems > >to back this up. What do you guys think? > > Does Elaine Gould count as a "guy"? She says "A hairpin should start > at the first relevant notehead (not accidental) and end with the > following notehead or at the first rest thereafter. Good practice is > to start the hairpin on the left-hand edge of the note and to finish > it on the right-hand edge of a note" (Behind Bars, p. 104). She > doesn't include examples of what she calls "adjacent-note chords", > but her examples of notes with stems up show the hairpins starting at > the left of the first notehead, not the stem. If you put \stemUp into > your second example, you will see that Lilypond follows this principle. > > Brian Barker
Thanks for your insight into this. I guess LilyPond is "doing the standard thing," as usual. Hairpins to the left it is!