Hi Robert, > I want to move a \sustainOff horizontally but cannot find the way
The problem here is that `\sustainOff` is a so called post event, that is, a
music event that is
written after a note and then attached to this note. Else this would need to be
a music
function, so instead of
c\sustainOff
you’d need to do
\sustainOff c
Now, `\override ...` changes the default settings in the whole context. So doing
\override SustainPedal.X-offset = ...
will change the X-offset for every SustainPedal grob created from this point on
in this
Voice context (while \once makes this revert after this timestep). [As Robin
pointed out
already Pedal marks are created on Staff level, so you’d need `\override
Staff.SustainPedal....`
Now, the issue is that overrides thus need to come before the thing they are
supposed to
affect are created. But if you do
c \override ... \sustainOff
this is not actually valid syntax. You will actually see a warning about a
non-attached
sustainEvent. But the parser will still try to make sense of it and thus attach
the event to
the last note it has found. So this code is actually interpreted as
c\sustainOff \override ...
But this means (as the \sustainOff is attached to a Note that happens at the
same time) that
the \override ... needs to come before the note.
Now, there is a different way to do it which behaves like you tried to do it,
which is using
tweaks.
The command `\tweak property value music-event` adds a list of tweaks to the
music-
event, and a special engraver then changes all properties to the tweaked
values. This of
course only works when the grob is created by a music event and only if the
written
property is not used by the original engraver. But for this sorts of tasks
tweaks are really
the way to go:
{ c'\sustainOn c'\tweak X-offset 2 \sustainOff }
Cheers,
Tina
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