> Hi!
>
> I'm new to Lilypond, and to this list. Lily is a wonderful
> music typesetter. In just a few short weeks, I've fallen in
> love. Congratulations to the developers.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Is there an engraver for pedaling marks in piano scores?
> Binding the word "Ped" in italic under a bass note works
> fine, but a normal asterisk for "pedal off" is much too
> small, and not correctly aligned on the base line.
I hope you used the \sustaindown and \sustainup commands.
It is also possible to customize the symbols used, search
for pedal at http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-music@gnu.org/
to get more info.
> 2. How do I enter whole bar rests? The convention for rests
> that last an entire bar is to use a whole-note rest,
> regardless of the time signature. So far, I haven't found a
> way to do this. How do I get, say, three bars of 6/8 with
> whole bar rests to come out as three bars with whole-note
> rests, rather than three bars of dotted-half rests?
Just use a R instead of r for the rest. In your example
that would be R2.*3 As an additional feature, Lilypond
can remove lines in a score that only contain rests,
see the manual.
/Mats
