On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:51:11 -0700, <address@hidden> wrote:
In a piano page chock full of bracket-style pedalling for chords at
widely different pitch levels, I've managed to align the horizontal
pedalling lines vertically, via a zillion little paragraphs like
Pete,
You can put the pedal indications in their own separate row, which
is placed as if it were a third staff. One of the snippets,
<http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=357>, defines an analog of Staff
called Dynamics that can hold dynamics and pedaling, but does not print
staff lines. The essence of it is below, plus a \remove statement to
remove the pedaling indications from the regular Staffs, so you can try
this out without much retyping. The leftHand part is included twice in
the score block; the Staff prints the notes, while Dynamics just prints
the pedal indications.
People like this Dynamics context well enough that it will come
standard in the next version of LilyPond. I like it for pedaling, but
actually don't use it myself for dynamics, because putting dynamics all
on the same horizontal line forces the left and right-hand staves too
far apart for my taste.
leftHand = \relative c {
c4\sustainOn b g\sustainOff e
c4\sustainOn b g\sustainOff e
c4\sustainOn b g\sustainOff e
c4\sustainOn b g\sustainOff e
}
\score {
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff { s1*4 }
\new Staff {
\clef bass
\leftHand
}
\new Dynamics {
\set Dynamics.pedalSustainStyle = #'bracket
\leftHand
}
%{%} >>
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\remove "Piano_pedal_engraver"
}
\context {
\PianoStaff
\accepts "Dynamics"
}
\context {
\type "Engraver_group"
\name Dynamics
\consists "Piano_pedal_engraver"
\consists "Axis_group_engraver"
}
}
}