> I've always terminated my cresc/decres with \! > I found that in the docs a while ago, but is that still the case? > > e1\< | a2\!\ff b2 > > Is the way I'd have done it.
AFAIK, this has never worked. If `\!` and `\ff` are at the same moment, `\!` gets ignored. Note that `\breakDynamicSpan` has been introduced in LilyPond version 2.13.23 (almost 13 years ago). Werner