I find that consecutive hairpins (e.g. {c\< d\>}) are too closely spaced
in standard Lilypond output.Looking at Elaine Gould's wonderful book "Behind Bars", I notice that in such cases her examples show one hairpin ending at the left-hand edge of a note and the next beginning at the right-hand edge of the same note, although she does not appear to say this - or if she does, it is a rare example of ambiguity in the text. (She says "good practice is to start the hairpin on the left-hand edge of the note and to finish in on the right-hand edge of a note"; looking at her examples, by "the right-hand edge of a note" in this context she means the left-hand edge of the following note, which is arguably the end of the duration of the first note.) This spacing gives a separation between consecutive hairpins of one notehead width, centred on the note, which looks just about right to me. Lilypond's default separation seems to be half of a notehead's width or slightly less, centred on the note. How can I alter this to increase the separation to a full notehead's width? When hairpins are not consecutive, but stand alone (without starting or terminating dynamics), Lilypond appears to start a hairpin at the left edge of the first note and end it at the right-hand edge of the last. This has always looked wrong to me, and judging from p. 104 of her book, it does to Elaine Gould too. How can I change the default so that hairpins normally stop at the left-hand edge of the final note? David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
