Dynamics "f" displayed by default

[tbreuss]

Is it intended that dynamics like “f” are displayed in every score where a note is placed? See example from official documentation.

I explicitly disable dynamics in every score with \hideDynamics, but I think that they should not be displayed by default.

[Danielku15]

Is it intended that dynamics like “f” are displayed in every score where a note is placed?

Yes, it is the intended behavior to show dynamics by default. It is an opt-in to hide them.

Instead of adding \hideDynamics everywhere you can force them hidden by doing something like:

api.scoreLoaded.on( score => { score.stylesheet.hideDynamics = true; });

For the future there is a plan for two changes:

Default Stylesheet

One plan is to have a "defaultStylesheet" on settings level which gets first applied, and then overrides can happen during import of files.

Guitar Pro 8 has "hideDynamics" enabled in their default stylesheet, that's why in various examples where we used GP files as input, they are hidden:

Make such annotations more dynamic in the data model

The data model has currently quite a lot of "default information" set. This default information is then also picked up on rendering and we rather check for changes to decide whether to show some glyphs again.

The default dynamic at start is "forte".

For the future data model the plan is to rather start "empty" and add annotations and effects on top. This is more the MusicXML approach.

[tbreuss]

Thank you very much for your detailed reply!