On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 10:50 AM Timothy Lanfear <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/08/2021 14:33, Knute Snortum wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 12:12 AM Brian Barker <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> At 11:59 06/08/2021 -0700, Knute Snortum wrote: > >>> I have a minor quibble. If you have a dynamic hairpin under a chord > >>> with a second interval, the hairpin extends a little to the left (to > >>> cover the whole chord?) I think it should only extend to the stem. > >>> I'm not an expert in engraving but the sheet music I've seen seems > >>> to back this up. What do you guys think? > >> Does Elaine Gould count as a "guy"? She says "A hairpin should start > >> at the first relevant notehead (not accidental) and end with the > >> following notehead or at the first rest thereafter. Good practice is > >> to start the hairpin on the left-hand edge of the note and to finish > >> it on the right-hand edge of a note" (Behind Bars, p. 104). She > >> doesn't include examples of what she calls "adjacent-note chords", > >> but her examples of notes with stems up show the hairpins starting at > >> the left of the first notehead, not the stem. If you put \stemUp into > >> your second example, you will see that Lilypond follows this principle. > >> > >> Brian Barker > > Thanks for your insight into this. I guess LilyPond is "doing the > > standard thing," as usual. Hairpins to the left it is! > > Version 2.23 has a new feature to configure the start and end alignment > of hairpins. > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes#dynamics > in the Selected Snippets section. > > > -- > Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK. >
Thanks! -- Knute Snortum
