I'm trying to notate harp pedals. This should looks something like
I currently have code where it's straightforward to get pretty close, like this
However, making it look like the first image involves a ton of time starting the new spanner a 16 (or 32, or whatever gives good spacing) later, setting TextSpanner.staff-padding so that the new spanner lines up with the old one, and tweaking the whitespace around the accidentals to look somewhat balanced. Is there any way to make this more "automatic"?
My current code is
\version "2.24.0"
startPed =
#(define-music-function (start-text end-text) (markup? markup?)
#{
\tweak dash-fraction #1.0
\tweak bound-details.left.text #start-text
\tweak bound-details.left.stencil-align-dir-y #CENTER
\tweak font-shape #'upright
\tweak bound-details.right.text #end-text
\tweak bound-details.right.stencil-align-dir-y #CENTER
\tweak bound-details.left-broken.text ##f
\tweak bound-details.right-broken.text ##f
\startTextSpan
#})
endPed = \stopTextSpan
RH = \relative es'' {
ces'16 gis f gis des8 r a'16 ges es ges d8 r |
}
Pedals = {
s4_\startPed "G♯" " ♭" s s \endPed _\startPed "" "♮" s4 \endPed _"D♮" |
}
\score {
\new Staff <<
\new Voice \RH
\new Voice \Pedals
>>
\layout {}
}
Thanks,
Alex