Re: simultaneous use of "long term" and "short term" crescendo/descrescendo

[Graham Percival]

On 22-Oct-05, at 10:08 AM, Bart Diels wrote:

> I would like to use "long term" and "short term" crescendos and 
> decrescendos
> simultaneously, but I cannot find out how to.
>
> What I am trying to get, apart from those two crescendo-descrescendos, 
> is a
> long underlying crescendo form a to a. How can that be achieved?

I would print _\markup{ \italic \bold cresc }  in addition to the 
hairpin \< \>.  If you want to print two hairpins at once, I think 
you'd need to fake it with an extra invisible staff or something weird 
like that.

Cheers,
- Graham