On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:56:26PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Frédéric Bron <frederic.b...@m4x.org> wrote: > > Because \dim starts on the next note, you have to put it before \ff > > which is the contrary of what happens really! If you put \dim after > > \ff, the "dim" starts on the next note and it is possible that the > > "ff" and the "dim" are not put on the same line. > > This illustrates perfectly why I would like that \cresc and \dim start > > on the next note. > > You mean that you would like \cresc and \dim to start on the previous > note, right?
> g4 \< g g g \! > g4 \cresc g g g \endcresc > > These two examples should have the same behavior, IMO. That is, the > commands apply to the *previous* note. Agreed. I'd love it if this could happen. > I think we need to rework \cresc, \dim, etc. so that they use a > modified version of make-span-event (the procedure \cr, \decr, etc. > use). Right now, with these commands, a SequentialMusic expression is > created, so the behavior will only apply to notes *following* the > command. Yes. I think that somebody (a Frog?) would need to make \cresc a built-in command rather than simply being defined in ly/spanner-init.ly (or maybe dynamics-init.ly ?) It would require a fair amount of understanding about lilypond, but it's definitely a worthwhile project. :) Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
