I have been reading the archives, and if I understand correctly, the _only_ way to make a hairpin crescendo or decrescendo last a duration that is shorter than an entire whole or half note is to add a pseudo voice of "invisible rests" and notate your hairpins to the pseudo voice.
Is this really the only way? If so, I find that adding this pseudo voice causes all kinds of unwanted consequences such as adjusting vertical positions of rests and stem directions in the actual music. This is not good. As an example, in the appended snippet I need to have the decrescendo underneath the A flat start proportionally one eight note duration after the beginning of that A flat. Can someone give me some pointers on how to achieve this? Thank you for your help and suggestions. \version "2.12.3" \include "english.ly" \score { \new Staff = "voice" { \autoBeamOn \numericTimeSignature \clef "treble" \time 3/4 % voice m03 fs'2^\mf (e'8) g'8^\mp % voice m04 ([e'8]) r8 g'8^\mp ([e'8] g'8^\< [e'8] % voice m05 \time 4/4 af'2^\!^\> ) r4^\! f'4^\mp } \addlyrics{ Smear Smear Smear } } \layout { \context { \Score \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 32) %% pg. proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) %% pg 364 } } _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user