Arle, you wrote Saturday, December 15, 2012 10:04 PM > 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. I've expanded a bit on your suggestion to use a separate Staff/Voice to carry the pedal marks. This will need some refinement, but it seems to do the trick: << \new Staff \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 1) (minimum-distance . 1) (padding . 1)) } { \new Voice { \relative c' { f,, f' f, f'' \repeat unfold 8 { f f' f, f'' } f,, f,, f f'' } } } \new Staff \with { \remove Staff_symbol_engraver \remove Clef_engraver \remove Time_signature_engraver } { \new Voice { \set Staff.pedalSustainStyle = #'mixed \repeat unfold 5 { s s\sustainOn s s s\sustainOff s s } s s\sustainOn s s s\sustainOff } } >> Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user