I think that when you say "If I put the pedal voice in the left-hand it forces
all the rests in the left-hand voice to sit a fifth higher" you must be using
implicit voices, which sets each voice as voiceOne, voiceTwo, etc, and
therefore moves the rests to avoid collisions. I've not got time now to give
an example of how to do this with voices, but try simply using \new Voice with
both your music and your pedals (placed using spacers) and if you can't get
that working, post a minimal working example that doesn't look right.
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Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
From: Arle Lommel
To: Phil Holmes
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Moving a staff closer to another one
I've moved sustain pedal articulations to a separate voice using spacers
because they did not fit cleanly on the other voices. If I put the pedal voice
in the left-hand it forces all the rests in the left-hand voice to sit a fifth
higher. In addition the marks end up aligned all over the place, often by small
offsets from each other to avoid other objects, and it looks *very* sloppy. By
moving them to a separate staff I was able to keep the left-hand clean and also
keep the pedal markings strictly and cleanly aligned. All I'd need to do to
make it look right is move the staff with them closer to the other piano staff.
I'm open to other ways to achieve the effect.
Here's an example of the structure I'm using in parallelMusic:
%012
\tiny \stemUp c''4\rest c8\rest \ottava #1 cis'32 gis' cis, gis \ottava #0
c8\rest cis,32 gis' cis, gis | %righthand
\top r4 r4 <cis'' eis>4 _\mg | %lefthand
s2.\sustainOff | %pedal
I realize that there are other notes I could hang the pedal marks off, but
often in this piece I have to use temporary polyphony and the \sustainOn point
falls in a different voice than the \sustainOff, in which case the \sustainOff
disappears in the output. Based on that a separate voice that I had better
control over seemed the best approach.
The question is how to put it in the pedal markings in such a way that they
look neat and that I can control them. A separate staff, except for the
spacing, gives exactly what I'm looking for in terms of output.
Best,
-Arle
On 2012 Dec 15, at 18:54 , "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> wrote:
What are you trying to achieve with the pedal Staff?
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