Re: Is there any way to use dynamics as prefixes?

[caagr98]

On 02/28/17 20:14, David Kastrup wrote:
> Well, but slurs can start at the same note where another slur ends, and
> `c'4( d')( e')' is a lot clearer to me than `(c'4 (d') d')'

I can honestly say I've never seen that, and I can't really imagine how 
that'd even be played. I agree that that looks like some sort of weird 
nesting, which isn't too great.

> But if you prefer the latter, just start your music file with
>
> "("=<>(

What is this, Perl?

> and you are all set.  At one point of time, LilyPond worked like that,
> and it wasn't really working all that well.

Might be better to just get used to it, then. Would probably help if 
Vim's lilypond highlighting didn't suck.

> Incidentally, the empty chord <> is helpful for your example as well:
>
> <>\mp
> \notes
> \notes
> <>\ff
> \notes
> ...

That seems quite useful, yes. AsI'm guessing it basically creates an 
empty zero-length chord and attaches stuff to that, how come the 
dynamics look like they're attached to the next note instead of before 
it? Is it because that would be silly?