> On 14 Nov 2025, at 09:55, Ruud van Silfhout <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> Where would you insert such an update, and can you formulate some text > >> for an addition? [Please refer to the NR version of the current > >> development version.] > > For me the problem is often that I don't know where to start looking for a > solution. > As I stated before, my initial guess was that I had to move the note (using > NoteColumn) to the right to make > space for the hairpin to appear, but I couldn't find the right way to do it. > It never occurred to me that forcing > the Hairpin's minimum length.would do the trick. > > This is something I regularly run into. I will explain that in another thread > regarding tempo markings. > Sadly, I do not have a simple solution to this. I think for me it is just a > matter of using lilypond not often enough, > although I used it quite often over the years. >
I was about to suggest to improve the location that crescendo in the index points to (that was pointing to the ‘relatively useless’ crescendo music-glossary link below the selected snippets in earlier versions). But I see that it’s target has already been improved on the 2.25 NR to point to a location higher up on the page, so that the habit of 'only scrolling down to continue reading on a subject' is more likely to make people discover the snippets that deal with hairpin minimum width. @Ruud, with the link for Crescendo in the 2.25 NR Index pointing to https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes#index-crescendo Do you think you would’ve managed to discover the snippet that deals with minimum hairpin length? @Werner maybe the snippet could be extended to showcase the from-to-explicit dynamic levels case that reduces the hairpin to a line that started this thread as the currently used not level-qualified crescendo/decrescendo will typically always result in recognizable hairpins and the explicit dynamics case makes an even clearer reasoning for why one might want to adapt the minimum-width of the hairpin.
