Re: sustain pedal display ugliness, how to fix?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Knute;

  Thank you very much for the two sustain pedal spacer suggestions.

  I had tried quite a few combinations with the spacers but just
couldn't get it to work correctly.

  I'll take a second look at what I tried and what you have suggested
here to see where my imagination failed.

  Thank you also for a suggested implementation of the spacer in a
dynamics context.  I was having trouble putting those two concepts
together.

Ken

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 8:50 AM Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is an example of using separate contexts for the notes and the
> sustain pedal.  I hope it helps:
>
> %%%
> \version "2.22.2"
>
> % These are just your bass clef notes
> bassNotes = {
>   \clef bass
>   <c, c>2 q | % m1
>   <c, c>2 q | % m2
>   \break
>   <c, c>2 q | % m3
>   <c, c>2 q | % m4
>   \break
> }
>
> % Here is the first way of dealing with sustain pedals
> pedalOne = {
>   s2\sustainOn s\sustainOff\sustainOn |
>   s2\sustainOff\sustainOn s4.\sustainOff\sustainOn s16 s\sustainOff |
>   s2\sustainOn s\sustainOff\sustainOn |
>   s2\sustainOff\sustainOn s4.\sustainOff\sustainOn s16 s\sustainOff |
> }
>
> % The pedal notes go on a separate dynamics context
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new Staff \bassNotes
>     \new Dynamics \pedalOne
>   >>
> }
>
> % Here is another strategy for the sustain pedal
> pedalTwo = {
>   \repeat unfold 4 { s4.\sustainOn s16 s\sustainOff
>                      s4.\sustainOn s16 s\sustainOff | }
> }
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new Staff \bassNotes
>     \new Dynamics \pedalTwo
>   >>
> }
> %%%
>
> --
> Knute Snortum
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 5:38 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
> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%
> >