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	Started by William Ashworth on 2005-11-08 22:33:19
Is there a way I haven't found to make the otherwise excellent hairpin crescendo/decrescendo marks adjust vertically? The note stems often interfere with them. I've gone back to using Pierre Schmidt's "crescendo" font for this reason (thanks, Pierre!).
	Reply 1 by Michael W. Powell on 2005-11-09 01:22:33
William, The vertical position of hairpins is governed by the dynamic marking preceding it. If there isn't a dynamic marking before the hairpin, try putting one in and moving it up or down and you will see how the hairpins adjust. If you don't need or want the dynamic marking to print you can always change its visibility to never. HTH, Michael
	Reply 2 by William Ashworth on 2005-11-09 13:18:53
Well, I tried it and it works. Thanks, Michael (now why didn't I think of that.....) William Ashworth
	Reply 3 by Ewan Harwood on 2005-11-09 15:29:58
Don't forget that you can repeat a dynamic mark, and make it invisible. For example, you might have ff at the start of your piece, and for some reason it has to be quite low. If your hairpin starts later and would look odd that low, you can put ff in again, make it invisible, and position it so the hairpin looks right. That way the playback will still be correct too.