Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

[Kieren MacMillan]

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." "*Ped." (markup #:lower 0.45 
"*") )
        }
}

Cheers,
Kieren.