Re: How can I make a markup-text with a concatanation of italic text and the \sustainOn symbol?

[Simon Albrecht]

On 22.01.2017 10:36, Robert Blackstone wrote:
> I am presently re-engraving a number of almost forgotten piano pieces.
> One of them has under the first bar of the LH staff the text: "/sempre 
> 2 Ped/", Ped being the usual standard notation as generated by \sustainOn.
>
> Although the LilyPond documentation tells me somewhere that "Pedal 
> indications may be placed in a Dynamics context, which aligns them on 
> a horizontal line." this does obviously not imply that a 
> markup-construction such as
> "\markup {\line {\concat \italic { più } { \dynamics f } }}" can be 
> used in my case.
>
> What should I do here to align "/sempre 2/" with \sustainOn?

You can of course use a markup construction. The ‘Ped’ symbol is 
available through \markup { \musicglyph #"pedal.Ped" }, see 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#pedal-glyphs> 
and 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/lilypond-command-index> 
for \musicglyph.
So you /should/ be able to just do this:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.18.2"

sustainBothMrkp = \markup { sempre 2 \musicglyph #"pedal.Ped" }
sustainBothOn = -\tweak text \sustainBothMrkp \sustainOn

\new Staff {
  c'1\sustainBothOn
  c'1\sustainOff
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

which would then work equally fine in Staff and Dynamics contexts.

However, I get ‘warning: SustainPedal has empty extent and non-empty 
stencil’ and \sustainBothOn isn’t printed, which I don’t know why. Anyone?

Best, Simon