Re: piano pedal lines over staff

[Mats Bengtsson]

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 #'dash-fraction = #'()
       \override TextSpanner #'edge-height = #'(1.0 . 1.0)

Note that this answer refers to version 2.10 or earlier. In version 
2.11, the
edge-height property of TextSpanner has been replaced by a much more
clumsy construct. To figure out the exact details, enter the two lines above
into a text file and run convert-ly --from="2.10.0" on that file.

  /Mats

Scott Miller wrote:
>   I've tried different text span options, but cannot seem to get 
> exactly what I'm after. Is there a way to have a piano pedal sort of 
> line above the staff, with the end hook pointing down?
>
> Somewhat like this (though a solid complete line, of course):
>
> __________
>             |
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Scott
>
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