"Simons, Don" wrote:
>
> Can't say much about hairpins except that I looked into implementing them at
> one time and got completely stuck due to some limitations of MusiXTeX
> itself. I can't recall the exact details but I think it was impossible to
> specify the symbol terms of its starting and ending positions; instead it
> would have been necessary to calculate the length of each hairpin and enter
> it at the start of the symbol and I found the "look-ahead" requirement led
> to horrible programming difficulties.
>
> I will mention, however, that there are some undocumented simple dynamic
> marks in PMX. The command is "D" followed by one of the following:
> "pppp","ppp","pp","p","mp","mf","f","fp","sf","ff","fff","ffff",
> followed by optional signed vertical (integer) and horizontal (decimal)
> shifts. Use at your own risk, and your mileage may vary.
>
nice feature as evaluated by a quick test :-)
> I could possibly be influenced to add up to three other combinations of up
> to four letters each. I don't want to try dealing with hairpins until and
> if it becomes possible to specify one in each line of music, indexed to its
> starting and ending notes (like is now possible with slurs and beams).
>
Mtx has implemented crescendos and decrescendos as uptext. One of the
two methods described in the mtx documentation allows individual
hairpins per staff.
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