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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user