Re: Misalignment in pedal indications

[Erik Sandberg]

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 20.06, Raphael Manfredi wrote:
> The following exerpt demonstrates that "Ped" and "*" are not properly
> aligned on a same horizontal line, making te indications confusing
> and hard to read.

As a workaround, perhaps you can use a text spanner, this should align each 
pair of Ped and * vertically. See input/test/text-spanner.ly for ideas.

If you want all Ped and * markings to be on the same vertical position, then 
you can create them in a Lyrics context, like
<<
\new PianoStaff << ... >>
\new Lyrics \lyricmode { \markup {...}2.. \markup {...}8 | ...  }
>>
where the {...}s are substituted for something that creates Ped and * 
markings.


I don't know about the conventions for pedal markings. Do you have any 
examples of hand-engraved scores, that show clearly that all pedal markings 
below one system should be vertically aligned? (in this case, I'll add it to 
the bug database)

> The latter is probably an enhancement request, but it prevents typesetting
> of a whole set of music...  Maybe there is a complex way to do what I want
> to do here?  It should be simple in lilypond though, because it's a rather
> a basic need when dealing with Romantic-styled music.

Try 
<< r2 {s4. s8\sustainUp} >>

-- 
Erik