Thanks, Robin and Tina. Great explanations. Robert
> El 24 abr. 2025, a les 14:00, Valentin Petzel <[email protected]> va > escriure: > > Hi Robert, > > > I want to move a \sustainOff horizontally but cannot find the way > > The problem here is that `\sustainOff` is a so called post event, that is, a > music event that is written after a note and then attached to this note. Else > this would need to be a music function, so instead of > > c\sustainOff > > you’d need to do > > \sustainOff c > > Now, `\override ...` changes the default settings in the whole context. So > doing > > \override SustainPedal.X-offset = ... > > will change the X-offset for every SustainPedal grob created from this point > on in this Voice context (while \once makes this revert after this timestep). > [As Robin pointed out already Pedal marks are created on Staff level, so > you’d need `\override Staff.SustainPedal....` > > Now, the issue is that overrides thus need to come before the thing they are > supposed to affect are created. But if you do > > c \override ... \sustainOff > > this is not actually valid syntax. You will actually see a warning about a > non-attached sustainEvent. But the parser will still try to make sense of it > and thus attach the event to the last note it has found. So this code is > actually interpreted as > > c\sustainOff \override ... > > But this means (as the \sustainOff is attached to a Note that happens at the > same time) that the \override ... needs to come before the note. > > Now, there is a different way to do it which behaves like you tried to do it, > which is using tweaks. > > The command `\tweak property value music-event` adds a list of tweaks to the > music-event, and a special engraver then changes all properties to the > tweaked values. This of course only works when the grob is created by a music > event and only if the written property is not used by the original engraver. > But for this sorts of tasks tweaks are really the way to go: > > { c'\sustainOn c'\tweak X-offset 2 \sustainOff } > > Cheers, > > Tina
