Re: Dynamics: cresc not correctly typesetted

[Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões]

Simon Bailey aka c10221 wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Alberto Manuel Brand?o Sim?es wrote:
>
> > I love it. And I just wonder how to put cresc.---- on my music :'(
> > I have two ready to contribute to mutopia, but without that I have a
> > very large < followed by a little other <... thats not correct notation..
>
>
> extracted from the manual, section on dynamics:
> <<<
>  You can also use a text saying _cresc._ instead of hairpins. Here is
> an example how to do it:
>
>        c4 \cresc c4 c c c \endcresc c4
>
>    You can also supply your own texts:
>        \context Voice {
>          \property Voice.crescendoText = \markup { \italic "cresc. poco" }
>          \property Voice.crescendoSpanner = #'dashed-line
>          a'2\< a a a\!\mf
>        }

What I understand from this extract (that I had already read) is that 
\cresc and \endcresc are used to typeset cresc.-------

But it does not typeset cresc.-----, but instead, it typesets <

Thanks
Alb
> hope that helps.
>
> regards,
> sb