On 16.8.2012, at 23:00, Tiresia GIUNO <tiresiag@goog...> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:05:12 -0700
> mkuuskan@siba... wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can any of you Lilypond people tell me why the "\override Hairpin
>> #'minimum-length …" does not actually seem to control the length of
>> the hairpin? Am I missing something here?
>>
>>
>>
>> \version "2.14.2"
>> \relative c'' {
>> \once \override Hairpin #'minimum-length = #5 \afterGrace
>> c4\<  s1\! c4 c4 c4
>>
>> % here the hairpin is too short
>> \once \override Hairpin #'minimum-length = #5 \afterGrace
>> c4\<\ppp  s1\!\fz c4 c4 c4 }
>>
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Mika Kuuskankare
>>
>
> The minimum-lenght property is set by default at 2.0 (staff spaces),
> see:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/internals/hairpin
>
> In the second bar of your example, setting it to #5, it's still too
> short, because you added dynamics as well (ppp and fz). If you want the
> same lenght of the first hairpin you should increase the minimum-lenght
> till #11 - or something like this.
>
> Of course this will increase also the distance between the first two
> notes.
>
> Regards,
> TG
>

Hi,

Yes, I realize that. I'm just wondering if the minimum-lenght property does what it is supposed to do? In my second case the length of the hairpin itself is much shorter than what the minimum suggests…
I can see that the doc says it *tries* to make a spanner at least that long… can you force this?


Mika Kuuskankare


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