Hi Jean;
I implemented your suggestion.
Can you provide a little more info regarding the padding amount, how
much larger than 0.5 can I increase it; is that in mm?
Thanks,
Ken
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 1:31 AM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>
>
>
> Le 01/04/2022 à 02:31, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit :
> > Hi;
> >
> > I'm engraving from an existing Piano arrangement of the "Ave Maria"
> > composed by Schubert.
> >
> > The typesetter uses the traditional sustain pedal style.
> >
> > The <c, c>2 chord is repeated with sustain on and off.
> >
> > The ugliness in my engraving is two-fold:
> >
> > First, the sustainOff end ('*') the following SustainOn are jammed
> > together.
> >
> > The second problem I can easily fix by making certain that there is
> > a sustainOff prior to the forced line break. (No, I don't get that
> > either)
> >
> > Since this is repeated for the entire piece, I'd really like to
> > place this in a variable.
> >
> > Just not sure how to do that.
> >
> > How is it that what is shown in the Notation Reference looks just
> > fine and it looks ugly when I try it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%
> > <c, c>2\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn | % m1
> > <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn | % m2
> > \break
> > <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn | % m3
> > <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn | % m4
> > \break
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>
> Well, LilyPond's way of doing pedals is a bit ugly. You could try
> something like
>
> \version "2.22.2"
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Staff
> \override SustainPedal.stencil =
> #(lambda (grob)
> (let ((text (ly:grob-property grob 'text)))
> (if (equal? text "*Ped.")
> (let ((font (ly:grob-default-font grob)))
> (ly:stencil-combine-at-edge
> (ly:font-get-glyph font "pedal.*")
> X
> RIGHT
> (ly:font-get-glyph font "pedal.Ped")
> ;; padding value
> 0.5))
> (ly:sustain-pedal::print grob))))
> }
> }
>
> sustainOff = \tweak non-musical ##t \sustainOff
>
> {
> c'1\sustainOn c'1\sustainOff\sustainOn c'1\sustainOff\sustainOn
> \break c'1\sustainOff
> }
>
>
> Jean
