Re: "Broken crescendo hairpin" snippet in "Expressive marks" is broken

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi David
>
> I think the snippet is behaving as intended.  It is
> not a bug.
>
> It would not make sense to position a pp dynamic mark
> in the gap created in a hairpin which goes from mf to
> sff, would it?  The hairpin relates to the lower of the
> two voices, with the gap in the hairpin corresponding
> to the rest in that voice.  In that gap the upper
> voice has a single note, which is to played pp.

That makes sense.  I would not actually interrupt the hairpin at all in
that case (or at least continue it with dashed lines).  Maybe the
accompanying text can be amended so that the intent becomes clearer?

-- 
David Kastrup