Re: vertical position off piano-staff-name

[Neil Puttock]

On 25 July 2010 15:33, Stefan Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear community,
> in the below quoted example, the placement of the PianoStaff.instrument Name
> is not convincing, in my opinion.
> How can I change it?

Try adding this hack to your `Pedal' definition:

\override VerticalAxisGroup #'meta =
#(let* ((descr (assoc-get 'VerticalAxisGroup all-grob-descriptions))
        (meta (assoc-get 'meta descr))
        (ifaces (assoc-get 'interfaces meta)))
   ;; Adding piano-pedal-interface to this VerticalAxisGroup
   ;; prevents it being acknowledged by Instrument_name_engraver
   (acons 'interfaces (cons 'piano-pedal-interface ifaces)
          meta))

> Has it to do with the dynamics and pedal-contextes?

Yes, the Instrument_name_engraver should ignore the pedal line.  It's
logged here: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=572

Cheers,
Neil