Re: crescendo beginning in middle of note duration

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Wilbert Berendsen <address@hidden>:

> Op zaterdag 8 maart 2008, schreef Peter Kaplan:
> > Occasionally a crescendo or decrescendo needs to begin not at the
> > commencement of a note's duration, but rather halfway through the note.
> > Can such a situation be properly typeset using lilypond?  If so, how?
>
> Yes, one way I know of is by instantiating a temporary polyphony, and
> attaching the dynamic to a 'space':
>
>  \new Staff \relative c' {
>    << g1\pp {s2 s\< a1 b\ff}>>
>  }

This question is answered in the second example of the section on 
Dynamics in the manual. Peter, can you provide a hint on how to make it 
even more clear?

  /Mats