This an old solution to put the pedal in its own context so you can add
spacers as you see fit. Maybe there is a better way now, but this works
pedal ={s8 s2\sustainOn s2\sustainOff }
\score {
\new PianoStaff \with {
instrumentName = "Piano"
} <<
\new Staff = "right" \with {
midiInstrument = "acoustic grand"
} << \rightOne >>
\new Dynamics = "dynamics" \dynamics
\new Staff = "left" \with {
midiInstrument = "acoustic grand"
} { \clef bass << \leftOne>> }
\new Dynamics = "pedal" \pedal
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 8:40 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I forgot to mention that I've been struggling with this concept all
> day, with and without the use of spacers. There's something that I'm
> just not getting through my thick skull.
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 5:31 PM Kenneth Wolcott
> <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi;
> >
> > I'm engraving from an existing Piano arrangement of the "Ave Maria"
> > composed by Schubert.
> >
> > The typesetter uses the traditional sustain pedal style.
> >
> > The <c, c>2 chord is repeated with sustain on and off.
> >
> > The ugliness in my engraving is two-fold:
> >
> > First, the sustainOff end ('*') the following SustainOn are jammed
> together.
> >
> > The second problem I can easily fix by making certain that there is
> > a sustainOff prior to the forced line break. (No, I don't get that
> > either)
> >
> > Since this is repeated for the entire piece, I'd really like to
> > place this in a variable.
> >
> > Just not sure how to do that.
> >
> > How is it that what is shown in the Notation Reference looks just
> > fine and it looks ugly when I try it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%
> > <c, c>2\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn | % m1
> > <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn | % m2
> > \break
> > <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn | % m3
> > <c, c>2\sustainOff\sustainOn q\sustainOff\sustainOn | % m4
> > \break
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>
