Re: Horizontal \sustainOn alignment

[N. Andrew Walsh]

Hi Andrew,

thank you for your kind offer. To be honest, I tend to agree with you: as ugly as the Fraktur glyph is, it's immediately recognizable (Gould even argues against using a Roman typeface, to avoid confusion with the sostenuto pedal). TBH, I think it was aligned like this in my working copy because the client had his son do it in Finale, and the son didn't know how to do it so just placed a text block into the score.

In that case, I'll let the client know that standard praxis places the glyph as it is, and ask him how serious he is about wanting it moved. 

Cheers,

A

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Andrew.

Talk them out of it! :-)

I understand why they want this – they want the exact start of the pedal down to be exactly on the leading edge of the note. But I think if they want that precision they are better off using the bracket pedal notation, which can be fine tuned easily. However, if they must have these dreadful ugly 19 century Ped glyphs then I have some pedal stencil code that can be adapted I believe.

Let me know how serious the client is about this, and if they will not budge and accept traditional practice, I could have a go at some custom code for you.

With the Fraktur font P, where exactly do they think the vertical line lies? [I need to know if we are to do this.]

I don’t think there are existing LSR snippets for this – but I may be wrong. The LSR search engine is primitive.

Andrew

On 24/03/2016, 22:42, "N. Andrew Walsh" <address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> wrote:

Well, we're talking about mm. here: In all of Gould's examples, it's more the "e" that's centered on the notehead. My client wants the vertical of the P to be flush with the left side of the notehead (which shifts it slightly but noticeably rightward compared to standards). I'm not sure why, but that's what he wants. Is that even doable?

Cheers,

A

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

> For reasons inexplicable to me (also somewhat odd from an engraving standpoint) my client wants the traditional Ped. glyph left-aligned to the start of the note.

Isn’t that the accepted tradition (cf. Gould)?
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your description…

Thanks,
Kieren.
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