Re: Dynamics [pl|sp]acing weirdness

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Michael,

> I've come across some placing or spacing weirdness with dynamics.
> In the attached example \dynamicsA is what I tried to code, aka the \< starts 
> directly after the \mf. What I expected is what you see in \dynamicsB. 
> However it seems as if the combo \mf\< does use some musical time which makes 
> the \f appear 1 quaver later than I had expected.
> Is this behaviour expected or a bug?

Did you notice the error(s) when you tried to compile?  ;)

Try this instead:

dynamicsA = {
  s2. \after 8... { <>\mf\< } s4 | s2 s2\f |
}

Note that the combo you’re trying to insert needs to be wrapped in braces so 
that it’s a single musical expression.

Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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