Re: Elongating Measures

[William Rehwinkel]

Dear Greg,

This looks like a good solution, but personally, when I have to tweak 
things like minimum length in Lilypond, I like to make it apply all the 
time, which you can do with context like this:

\layout {
    \context {
        \Score
        \override Hairpin.minimum-length = 10
    }
}

-William

On 9/7/24 11:12, Greg Lindstrom wrote:
> Kieren (and friends) -
>
> Thank-you. This works great. And since I want to use it in a number of 
> locations I made a couple of functions:
>
>     % Length Crescendo - Specify a minimum length for the crescendo
>     lCresc = #(define-music-function(parser location minLen) (integer?)
>                  #{
>                    -\tweak minimum-length #'numLen -\<
>                  #})
>
>
>     % Length Decrescendo - Specify a minimum length for the decrescendo
>     lDcresc = #(define-music-function(parser location minLen) (integer?)
>                  #{
>                    -\tweak minimum-length #'numLen -\>
>                  #})
>
>
> Which cleans things up a bit:
>
>        \time 3/2 af bf(c)\!|
>        \time 2/2 df1\f \lDcresc 7 \breathe|
>        c2\mf af|
>
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> --greg
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 7:55 PM Kieren MacMillan 
> <kieren@kierenmacmillan.info <mailto:kieren@kierenmacmillan.info>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Greg,
>
>      > I would like it to be longer so the decrescendo is a bit more
>     prominent.
>      > [snip]
>      > Is there a way I can specify the length of the measure or
>     otherwise make it longer?
>
>     Here’s one option:
>
>     %%%  SNIPPET BEGINS
>     \version "2.25.11"
>
>     {
>        df2\mf df\<  |
>        \time 3/2 df df( f)\!  |
>        \time 2/2 f1\f -\tweak minimum-length 12 -\> \breathe  |
>        f2\mf c  |
>        c ef\<  |
>     }
>     %%%  SNIPPET ENDS
>
>     Hope that helps!
>     Kieren.
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