With the suggestion of @Hans, I think I would have found it as in that section under 'Selected snippets' there is an example with the title 'Setting the minimum-length of a Hairpin' with a description that exactly describes the problem I ran into. Thanks for the suggestion. So the NR Index referring to the described location is a good improvement.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM Hans Aikema <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. >
