Hi Robin, Thanks for your critical comment. I can see your point, but personally I am not very disturbed with or hindered by the result of my amateurish hack. I tried several other hacks, for example coupling the notes with real ties, but I found the result extremely ugly.
And finally I will be the only one who will use this transcription. I would have liked it to be perfect and that is why I posted my question on the LilyPond mailing-list. The expert solutions that were proposed didn’t work in my score, no idea why not. Best regards. Robert > On 21 Dec 2019, at 17:38, Robin Bannister <r...@dabble.ch> wrote: > > Robert Blackstone wrote: > > > > I’m presently transcribing some piano-scores in which schords, > > sustained with a pedal are notated in a way had not seen before > > (see screenshot). > > Referring to that original screenshot, surely there is no pedal here. The > pedal would blur what the right hand is doing. > > This is much more likely laissezvibrer asking for the lefthand fifth to be > allowed to resonate to the sounds produced by the right hand. > It wants the keys kept pressed even when the initial pp may have decayed to > pppp. > > > > > Anyway, I found something that gave me a result, not quite identical > > to what I wanted to get, but good enough for me and probably > > sufficiently clear for a pianist. See the attached screenshot. > > That wouldn't be good enough for me. > > In sightreading mode I would glimpse that in the lefthand there is nothing at > the start of the second measure, and so would release the fifth sooner than > is intended. > > In sightreading mode I would ignore the middle of the second measure. > It is only in the context of this thread that I can guess what is meant. > > I think there should be something tie-like (complete or open) crossing from > the first measure to the second. > > > Cheers, > Robin > > > > > > >