Re: Pedalling adjustments

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Bernard" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 2:57 AM
Subject: Pedalling adjustments


> Greetings List,
>
> With the traditional Ped and * style, how does one adjust the position of 
> the *? No override I can find appears to make any difference at all. I 
> would like to be able to add more 'air' in the pedal off pedal on 
> situation, and be able to move the * to the end of a bar. I can do this 
> with pedal line brackets, but not with Ped and *.
>
> \version "2.17.18"
>
> \paper {
>   ragged-right = ##f
> }
>
> lower = \relative c {
>   \clef bass
>   \time 4/4
>
>   c\sustainOn c c c\sustainOff\sustainOn
>   c c\sustainOff\sustainOn c c\sustainOff
> }
>
> \score {
>   \new PianoStaff
>   <<
>     \new Staff = "bass" { \lower }
>   >>
>   \layout {
>   }
> }
>
> Andrew


I personally find this one of the most annoying of LilyPond's bugs. 
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1128  I think the best 
solution is parallel voices with skips, scaled to place the pedal markings 
where you want them:

\version "2.17.18"

\score {
 \new PianoStaff
 <<
   \new Staff {
   <<
     \new Voice {
       \clef bass
       \time 4/4
       c4 c c c
       c c c c
     }
     \new Voice {
       s4 \sustainOn s2 s4 \sustainOff \sustainOn
       s4 s \sustainOff\sustainOn s4 s8 s16 \sustainOff s16
     }
   >>
   }
 >>
}


--
Phil Holmes