Re: Sustain pedal cautionary after line break

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Pierre,

> Could you tell me a little more?

Here’s a tweaked-up example:

\relative c'' {
  \set Staff.pedalSustainStyle = #'mixed
  c1\sustainOn \break
  c1 -\tweak extra-offset #'(-4 . -0.9) -\tweak whiteout-style #'outline 
-\tweak whiteout 3 -\tweak layer 2 _\markup \concat { ( \musicglyph 
#"pedal.Ped" ".)" \hspace #0.5 }
  c1\sustainOff
}

In my real-world engravings, I do this via the edition-engraver (instead of 
inline), and use context overrides instead of tweaks… but you get the picture.

Changing the pedal stencil and adding a “\sustainOff\sustainOn” at the 
line-break, as you did, is the other obvious workaround; it’s slightly more 
complicated, but more flexible and less fragile.

Ultimately, I think we all agree it will be best when broken-spanner 
texts/markups are natively supported in pedals.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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