On 17 août 2012, at 13:06, mkuus...@siba.fi wrote:
>
> On 16.8.2012, at 23:00, Tiresia GIUNO <tires...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:05:12 -0700
>> mkuus...@siba.fi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can any of you Lilypond people tell me why the "\override Hairpin
>>> #'minimum-length …" does not actually seem to control the length of
>>> the hairpin? Am I missing something here?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> \version "2.14.2"
>>> \relative c'' {
>>> \once \override Hairpin #'minimum-length = #5 \afterGrace
>>> c4\< s1\! c4 c4 c4
>>>
>>> % here the hairpin is too short
>>> \once \override Hairpin #'minimum-length = #5 \afterGrace
>>> c4\<\ppp s1\!\fz c4 c4 c4 }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Mika Kuuskankare
>>>
>>
>> The minimum-lenght property is set by default at 2.0 (staff spaces),
>> see:
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/internals/hairpin
>>
>> In the second bar of your example, setting it to #5, it's still too
>> short, because you added dynamics as well (ppp and fz). If you want the
>> same lenght of the first hairpin you should increase the minimum-lenght
>> till #11 - or something like this.
>>
>> Of course this will increase also the distance between the first two
>> notes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> TG
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, I realize that. I'm just wondering if the minimum-lenght property does
> what it is supposed to do? In my second case the length of the hairpin itself
> is much shorter than what the minimum suggests…
> I can see that the doc says it *tries* to make a spanner at least that long…
> can you force this?
>
>
> Mika Kuuskankare
>
>
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This is not an ideal solution, but you can do an override that increases the
requested minimum length of a crescendo by half the length of each dynamic that
bookends it plus the padding on each end. It'd take some Scheming, but this'd
guarantee what you're after.
Cheers,
MS
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