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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> <[email protected]> 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 >> > %%%%%%%%%%%% >>
