Re: crescendo ruins MIDI file

[Cameron Horsburgh]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> I have an example in which the insertion of a crescendo in the music
> causes the generated MIDI file to be bad. Removing the crescendo fixes
> the problem. Is this a known problem? I'm using version 2.7.17 on Windows.
> 
> 
> A second thing: \< and \f don't work the same way in jEdit as \p. It
> looks like \p is the one that is correct.
> 
> thanks
What sort of bad?

There is an issue where unterminated (de)crescendos cause the midi to be
completely silent. The workaround, if this is your problem, is to
explicitly terminate it.

For example:

{a\< b c d\f} will not work properly but
{a\< b c d\!\f} will.

Cameron