On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Arle Lommel <fene...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Phil Holmes’ suggestion to learn move about using explicit
> voices I resolved one of my major problems with the piece I'm working on.
> Thanks much.
>
> The second problem remains. How can I improve the vertical alignment of
> pedal marks? The piece I am working on has a lot of situations like the
> following:
>
>
> I know that this is acceptable at some level, but it would look MUCH nicer
> (neater and more intentional) if all of the pedal marks were vertically
> aligned rather than arrayed here and there to avoid other objects. I
> realize that not everyone would want this and that for many pieces it would
> be needed, but for the one I'm working on if all the pedal brackets lined
> up (at least within a row), it would be a marked improvement, especially as
> this piece is already quite visually noisy.
>

You can move the \sustain commands to a Dynamics context:

\new Staff { \clef bass c,1\sustainOn c,1\sustainOff c,1 c,,1\sustainOn
c,,1\sustainOff }

<<
  \new Staff { \clef bass c,1 c,1 c,1 c,,1 c,,1 }
  \new Dynamics { s1\sustainOn s1\sustainOff s1 s1\sustainOn s1\sustainOff }
>>

Regards,
Nathan

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