If I understand correctly, is this similar to the (rather hackish, imo) lsr
snippet? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=450
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Cordilow wrote:
>
> In most music I see out there, I've noticed that related dynamics (and often
> markup) are usually parallel (such that if you drew a horizontal line, it
> would meet both at the same vertical position). In fact, I'm hard pressed to
> think of a situation where they're not in the sheet music I've seen
> published in books and such. I was wondering if there was some system in
> LilyPond where one could add a tag to certain dynamics to make them
> parallel: e.g.
>
> a'\p?var1 c' d' b'\mf?var1 f'\markup{asdf}?var1 d''2\<?var2 e''4\!
> c''\>?var2 b'\!
>
> var1 and var2 are the variable names that tie the vertical distances of the
> dynamics from the note stems together so that they're parallel. Anyway, it's
> just pseudo code. I don't know if question marks actually do anything in
> LilyPond, but here I have it so it just ties the variable to the dynamic.
>
> Does this make sense? I'm sure there are workarounds to get the same effect,
> but I imagine they might be rather inconvenient at times (though I could be
> wrong).
>
> If there's currently not anything like this in place, I'd like to suggest
> it. I'd pay some toward sponsoring it (probably about $20–30 is my limit
> right now). Does anyone else like this idea and/or wish to sponsor it (if it
> doesn't already exist)?
>
> Anyway, this could do a lot for the aesthetics of the music.
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