Re: pedal markings in dynamic context

[Eluze]

Simon Bailey-5 wrote
> On Tuesday, 16 July 2013 at 15:25, Phil Holmes wrote:
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>> > see attached pdf. bar 3 especially is not really very pretty…
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>> Not sure what's not pretty? The thing I would adjust is the alignment of  
>> pedal on and off marks, but otherwise it looks OK to me?
> 
> the sustainOn on beat 1 in bar 3 is far too far away from the music. the
> sustainOn on beat 3 and sustainOff on beat 4 should be on the same line
> (read: i would like). adjusting the alignment of the marks for each and
> every mark is extremely tedious and involves a lot of trial and error –
> especially in an 18-page piece with about 470 pedalling instructions,
> which is what i'm currently working on…
> 
> for whatever reason, the vertical alignment in bar 1 looks good, albeit
> too far away from the staff. bar 2 is agreeable as well, but four
> different levels of pedal markings in bar 3 is not pretty. in my highly
> subjective opinion. :) which is the reason i wanted to use a Dynamics
> context for the pedalling and simply raise the context line to a suitable
> level and have some pedalling instructions drop out of the line…  
> 
> looks like it's the hard way for now though… :)  

choosing less narrow spacing so that the pedal mark doesn't collide with the
previous note seems to help:

\new Voice {
  \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment
16) \pedals 
}

Eluze



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