-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 schrieb Mark Polesky: > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Graham Percival <address.hidden> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:12:56 AM > > > I did my horizontal placement can be done with #:translate. What > > snippet are you thinking of? I didn't realize there was enough > > material to make an "exhaustive" study of the subject. > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Tweaks-and-overri >des#horizontally-aligning-custom-dynamics-e.g.-sempre-pp,-piu-f,-subito-p.ly > > > The one tricky thing is the horizontal placement: for things like "mf > > dolce", I wanted the "mf" aligned with the notehead. For something > > like "sub p", should the "p" be aligned with the notehead, or should > > the "sub" be aligned? > > The above-mentioned snippet argues that the dynamic should be aligned > with the notehead,
Yes, for a "sempre pp" that's what both an old engraving from 189x and one from 1996 do. Actually, one instrument has a p and all others have "sempre pp". The p and pp are aligned with each other. > not the italic-text, but intuitively that seems > wrong to me. Perhaps it depends on the specific circumstance, but I'm > thinking of something like "poco a poco piĆ¹ f". As a musician, I'd > start "poco a poco"-ing as soon as the first word starts -- I wouldn't > wait till the "f". True, but then "poco a poco" is probably a bad example, as for me the "poco a poco"-ing starts with the text, so you definitely shouldn't align the f on the note (since the f does not affect the note, but it gradually evolved a few notes later) Imagine a "subito pp". If you are sight-reading such a mark, it's really easy to miss the fact that the pp should start immedately at the spot where "subito" is placed. > That said, I wonder what the treatises have to say > on the topic (eg. Gardner Read etc.). Gardner Read is quiet on such dynamics with additional comments. However, here's what he says in general about dynamic markings (p.252): "In general, dynamic marks should be placed //as close as possible// to the notes they affect -- if this position is consistent with over-all visual clarity." Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI2suDTqjEwhXvPN0RApPxAKCotHV25Cz/UNCXQZGfL6qUooAabgCgkVRM PbADZp49FgozGRg+yJ7fncw= =T0Ly -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user