Re: sustain pedal display ugliness, how to fix?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Shane;

  I really appreciate your response, but I do not understand it, even
after quite a bit of experimentation with it, I'm sorry that I'm quite
dense.

  I have been able to solve the problem by using the bracket style of
the sustain pedal as a workaround.

Thanks,
Ken

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 5:59 PM Shane Brandes <shane.brandes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This an old solution to put the pedal in its own context so you can add 
> spacers as you see fit. Maybe there is a better way now, but this works
>
> pedal ={s8 s2\sustainOn s2\sustainOff  }
>
>
> \score {
>   \new PianoStaff \with {
>     instrumentName = "Piano"
>   } <<
>     \new Staff = "right" \with {
>       midiInstrument = "acoustic grand"
>     } << \rightOne >>
>     \new Dynamics = "dynamics" \dynamics
>     \new Staff = "left" \with {
>       midiInstrument = "acoustic grand"
>     } { \clef bass << \leftOne>> }
>     \new Dynamics = "pedal" \pedal
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 8:40 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I forgot to mention that I've been struggling with this concept all
>> day, with and without the use of spacers.  There's something that I'm
>> just not getting through my thick skull.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 5:31 PM Kenneth Wolcott
>> <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi;
>> >
>> >   I'm engraving from an existing Piano arrangement of the "Ave Maria"
>> > composed by Schubert.
>> >
>> >   The typesetter uses the traditional sustain pedal style.
>> >
>> >   The <c, c>2 chord is repeated with sustain on and off.
>> >
>> >   The ugliness in my engraving is two-fold:
>> >
>> >   First, the sustainOff end ('*') the following SustainOn are jammed 
>> > together.
>> >
>> >   The second problem I can easily fix by making certain that there is
>> > a sustainOff prior to the forced line break. (No, I don't get that
>> > either)
>> >
>> >   Since this is repeated for the entire piece, I'd really like to
>> > place this in a variable.
>> >
>> >   Just not sure how to do that.
>> >
>> >   How is it that what is shown in the Notation Reference looks just
>> > fine and it looks ugly when I try it?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ken Wolcott
>> >
>> > %%%%%%%%%%%%
>> >   <c, c>2\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn             | % m1
>> >   <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn  | % m2
>> > \break
>> >   <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn  | % m3
>> >   <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn  | % m4
>> > \break
>> > %%%%%%%%%%%%
>>