I think that when you say "If I put the pedal voice in the left-hand it forces all
the rests in the left-hand voice to sit a fifth higher" you must be using
implicit voices, which sets each voice as voiceOne, voiceTwo, etc, and therefore
moves the rests to avoid collisions. I've not got time now to give an
example of how to do this with voices, but try simply using \new Voice with both
your music and your pedals (placed using spacers) and if you can't get that
working, post a minimal working example that doesn't look
right.
-- Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 6:50
PM
Subject: Re: Moving a staff closer to
another one
I've moved sustain pedal articulations to a separate voice
using spacers because they did not fit cleanly on the other voices. If I put
the pedal voice in the left-hand it forces all the rests in the left-hand
voice to sit a fifth higher. In addition the marks end up aligned all over the
place, often by small offsets from each other to avoid other objects, and it
looks *very* sloppy. By moving them to a separate staff I was able to keep the
left-hand clean and also keep the pedal markings strictly and cleanly aligned.
All I'd need to do to make it look right is move the staff with them closer to
the other piano staff.
I'm open to other ways to achieve the effect.
Here's an example of the structure I'm using in parallelMusic:
%012
\tiny \stemUp
c''4\rest c8\rest \ottava #1 cis'32 gis' cis, gis \ottava #0 c8\rest cis,32
gis' cis, gis | %righthand
\top r4 r4
<cis'' eis>4 _\mg | %lefthand
s2.\sustainOff
| %pedal
I realize that there are other notes I could hang the pedal marks off,
but often in this piece I have to use temporary polyphony and the \sustainOn
point falls in a different voice than the \sustainOff, in which case the
\sustainOff disappears in the output. Based on that a separate voice that I
had better control over seemed the best approach.
The question is how to put it in the pedal markings in such a way that
they look neat and that I can control them. A separate staff, except for the
spacing, gives exactly what I'm looking for in terms of output.
Best,
-Arle
What are you trying to achieve with the pedal
Staff?
-- Phil
Holmes
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