Re: Piano Pedal placement

Hi Martin, You could try the attached, with the commands pedOn, pedRetake and pedOff. Best, David Sustain-Pedal-2.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document \version "2.19.83" \pointAndClickOff pedOn = #(define-event-function () () #{ -\tweak shorten-pair #'(0 . -1) -\tweak

Re: Piano pedal gradual release

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 7:40 AM Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > > What on earth does a gradual piano pedal release achieve? Either the > > dampers are touching the strings or they're not, so it's in effect a binary > > choice. > > That’s not true: the amount of pressure applied by the

Re: Piano pedal gradual release

Hi Phil, > What on earth does a gradual piano pedal release achieve? Either the dampers > are touching the strings or they're not, so it's in effect a binary choice. That’s not true: the amount of pressure applied by the dampers — from 100% to 0% — is graduated (based on how much gravity is

Re: Piano pedal gradual release

Am Sa., 30. Nov. 2019 um 11:50 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bernard : > I don't write this stuff, I am merely the harmless drudge that tries to > engrave it! [...] > I have seen other composers write the same thing also. I think > it's a type of modernist composer shared delusion. > > The things we

Re: Piano pedal gradual release

Am Sa., 30. Nov. 2019 um 01:20 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bernard : > > I wonder if it is possible to indicate piano pedal gradual release off, > and gradual on, using curves? Please refer to attached shots of MS. > > We have been able to do great things with pedal lines before in response > my requests,

Re: Piano pedal gradual release

Am Samstag, 30 Nov 2019 10:24:30 - schrieb Phil Holmes: > What on earth does a gradual piano pedal release achieve? Either the > dampers are touching the strings or they're not, so it's in effect a > binary choice. So a gradual release simply makes the time the sustain > ends somewhat

Re: Piano pedal gradual release

Hello Phil, I don't write this stuff, I am merely the harmless drudge that tries to engrave it! Although I think it's somewhat stupid, I will say, speaking as somebody who has made harpsichords most of my life, and messed around with many keyboard instruments, it is possible to hear very,

Re: Piano pedal gradual release

- Original Message - From: "Andrew Bernard" To: Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 12:20 AM Subject: Piano pedal gradual release I wonder if it is possible to indicate piano pedal gradual release off, and gradual on, using curves? Please refer to attached shots of MS. We have been

Re: Piano pedal mark collision (\sustainOn, \sustainOff)

Hi, Mark! On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > If acceptable, the use of "bracket" style can eliminate the conflict. Going in my pedal definition with: \set pedalSustainStyle = #'bracket is other kind of workaround, but text style is much

Re: Piano pedal mark collision (\sustainOn, \sustainOff)

Hi, Kieren! On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> No one played with positions of \sustainOn and \sustainOff? > > Well, I took a couple of seconds, and failed. > > Then, just now, I realized there’s a possible solution: >

Re: Piano pedal mark collision (\sustainOn, \sustainOff)

Hi Przemyslaw, > Do you perhaps indirectly suggest something like replacing closing > asterisk "*" with asterisk with some space padding "* “? That’s exactly what I’m suggesting. > That could work too, I guess, if it's possible. Yes. And it would be the superior workaround, since it would

Re: Piano pedal mark collision (\sustainOn, \sustainOff)

Hi! No one played with positions of \sustainOn and \sustainOff? On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Przemyslaw Pawelczyk wrote: > I have a problem with \sustainOn and \sustainOff colliding each other > in some cases. > I use following pattern > > s32*31\sustainOn

RE: Piano pedal mark collision (\sustainOn, \sustainOff)

January 27, 2016 11:34 AM To: lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Piano pedal mark collision (\sustainOn, \sustainOff) Hi! No one played with positions of \sustainOn and \sustainOff? On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <mu...@pawelczyk.it> wrot

Re: Piano pedal mark collision (\sustainOn, \sustainOff)

Hi, > No one played with positions of \sustainOn and \sustainOff? Well, I took a couple of seconds, and failed. Then, just now, I realized there’s a possible solution: I don’t know if markup (or even “fake markup”) support

Re: Piano pedal lines

At 16:05 on 10 Jul 2015, Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings All, Using bracket style for piano pedals, is it possible to have a dashed horizontal line instead of solid? Yes. See below. For more options, note that PianoPedalBracket supports the line-interface, so you can override any of those

Re: Piano pedal lines

Greetings, That’s good to know that pedals support the line interface. But I think what I require is a blend of pedal and text spanner, so that I can change end marks and add arbitrary text. I am hoping to achieve effects similar to the attached image. Can the pedal stencil be adjusted to do

Re: piano pedal

Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com writes: Hello, Using the documentation http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/piano I have attached the sustain commands to the left staff. When the lower voice moves to the right staff the sustain markings change style and

RE: piano pedal

:38 PM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: piano pedal Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com writes: Hello, Using the documentation http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/piano I have attached the sustain commands to the left staff. When

RE: piano pedal

Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:38 PM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: piano pedal Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com writes: Hello, Using the documentation http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18

RE: piano pedal

Abraham, Thanks, I shall look more closely. Mark From: Abraham Lee [mailto:tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 6:47 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: David Kastrup; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: RE: piano pedal On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Mark Stephen

Re: piano pedal

Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com writes: David, Thank you for your reply and the commands. Where in the documentation can I find more on the method (the why and how it works) you presented? URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/modifying-context-plug_002dins

RE: piano pedal

Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 7:05 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: piano pedal Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com writes: David, Thank you for your reply and the commands. Where in the documentation can

Re: piano pedal

- Original Message - From: Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com To: 'David Kastrup' d...@gnu.org Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 3:15 PM Subject: RE: piano pedal David, Thank you for the references. I shall read them today. I want the pedal indication

Re: Piano pedal - horizontal alignment

- Original Message - From: Mark Stephen Mrotek To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 2:47 PM Subject: Piano pedal - horizontal alignment Hello, In a piano score the \sustainOn, \sustainOff symbols are generally in a horizontal line, i.e., same distance below the

RE: Piano pedal - horizontal alignment

Mr. Holmes, Thank you for your reply and the instructions. I shall follow them. Mark -Original Message- From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 7:01 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Piano pedal - horizontal alignment

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

Hi Neil, 2008/9/14 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, unless you're compiling from source. The asterisk's bounding box is hard-coded during font generation (see attached image). How did you get that image? In Lilypond or in Fontforge (or something else)? I'd like to see if the numbers in

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008/9/15 Mark Polesky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/14 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unfortunately, the strings in this list are only used to build up the glyph names. That _IS_ unfortunate. I was under the impression that if I wanted to create my own pedal asterisk, I could (ie. without

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008/9/15 Risto Vääräniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Neil, 2008/9/14 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, unless you're compiling from source. The asterisk's bounding box is hard-coded during font generation (see attached image). How did you get that image? In Lilypond or in Fontforge (or

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

Hi Mark, 2008/9/14 Mark Polesky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When using \sustainOn and \sustainOff to make piano pedal marks, the Ped. glyph and the * glyph (which has less height) are drawn with the tops vertically aligned. Is there a way to align them at the baseline without manual overrides on each

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

Hi Neil, No, unless you're compiling from source. The asterisk's bounding box is hard-coded during font generation (see attached image). But why wouldn't (i.e., doesn't) this work? \layout { \context { \Score pedalSustainStrings = #'(Ped.

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008/9/14 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But why wouldn't (i.e., doesn't) this work? \layout { \context { \Score pedalSustainStrings = #'(Ped. *Ped. (markup #:lower 0.45 *) ) } } Unfortunately, the strings in this list are only

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008/9/14 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unfortunately, the strings in this list are only used to build up the glyph names. That _IS_ unfortunate. I was under the impression that if I wanted to create my own pedal asterisk, I could (ie. without compiling from source!) I think this is the

Re: piano pedal lines over staff

If you really want to use it as a piano pedal bracket, then you can do \override Staff.SustainPedalLineSpanner #'direction = #UP \override Staff.PianoPedalBracket #'edge-height = #'(-1.0 . -1.0) Otherwise, use ordinary text spanners with \override TextSpanner

Re: piano-pedal-{performer,engraver} bug

Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since SustainEvent and friends are symbols (not strings), we should be comparing them to symbols instead of strings. Thanks. Applied. Did this cause any errors, BTW? No pedal events actually ended up in any midi files I

Re: Piano Pedal performace across a PianoStaff

Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interesting, you get a SIGSEGV! However, if you replace Piano_pedal_performer with Piano_pedal_engraver, LilyPond will process the file without crashing. Still, it doesn't do what you want. The next time, you try these things, remember that

Re: piano pedal brackets

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:55:31 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Atte_Andr=E9_Jensen?= wrote: Jonathan Kraut wrote: snip the bracket sides for a pedal change are drawn as: \__/___ instead of /\_ I have the exact same problem here (both with your example and some of my own music) using

Re: piano pedal brackets

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /\_ I have the exact same problem here (both with your example and some of my own music) using 2.1.0. Is this a known bug? Is there a workaround? If it is a bug should we post to the bugs list? Thanks. Yes, please. However, due to problems with