Re: Horizontal \sustainOn alignment

[Mark Knoop]

At 15:04 on 24 Mar 2016, Mark Knoop wrote:
>At 09:29 on 24 Mar 2016, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>>> In all of Gould's examples, it's more the "e" that's centered on the
>>> notehead.    
>>
>>We must have different Goulds: not only are all of the examples I see
>>left-aligned with the left edge of the “P” [even using a magnifying
>>glass], but Gould explicitly states (in the prose) that this is the
>>the correct alignment.  
>
>It seems that Gould is not consistent. In the first pedal example at
>the end of Chapter 2 (page 73 in my edition) the Ped symbol is centered
>on the notehead. But in the more detailed treatment of piano pedalling
>in Chapter 11 (page 333 and onwards) Ped is left aligned as Kieren
>states.

In a brief flip through my piano music library there certainly doesn't
seem to be any consistency, even within one work, let alone publication
or edition. Most common is an alignment where the gap between the "P"
and "e" of Ped is roughly centered on the notehead. But this drifts in
both directions. Exact left alignment was relatively uncommon.

-- 
Mark Knoop