Hello Simon,
Thanks for your advice. In its simple form, i.e. by adding: _\markup { \italic
{sempre 2} \musicglyph #"pedal.Ped" } , it works perfectly.
The other method, as in the ME you gave, it did not work.
But I got exactly what I needed. Thanks again.
Best regards,
Robert
On 22 Jan 2017, at 11:40 , Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote:
> On 22.01.2017 10:36, Robert Blackstone wrote:
>> I am presently re-engraving a number of almost forgotten piano pieces.
>> One of them has under the first bar of the LH staff the text: "/sempre 2
>> Ped/", Ped being the usual standard notation as generated by \sustainOn.
>>
>> Although the LilyPond documentation tells me somewhere that "Pedal
>> indications may be placed in a Dynamics context, which aligns them on a
>> horizontal line." this does obviously not imply that a markup-construction
>> such as
>> "\markup {\line {\concat \italic { più } { \dynamics f } }}" can be used in
>> my case.
>>
>> What should I do here to align "/sempre 2/" with \sustainOn?
>
> You can of course use a markup construction. The ‘Ped’ symbol is available
> through \markup { \musicglyph #"pedal.Ped" }, see
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#pedal-glyphs>
> and
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/lilypond-command-index>
> for \musicglyph.
> So you /should/ be able to just do this:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> sustainBothMrkp = \markup { sempre 2 \musicglyph #"pedal.Ped" }
> sustainBothOn = -\tweak text \sustainBothMrkp \sustainOn
>
> \new Staff {
> c'1\sustainBothOn
> c'1\sustainOff
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> which would then work equally fine in Staff and Dynamics contexts.
>
> However, I get ‘warning: SustainPedal has empty extent and non-empty stencil’
> and \sustainBothOn isn’t printed, which I don’t know why. Anyone?
>
> Best, Simon
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