Changing the text for sustain markings

Revision as of 18:51, 16 November 2025 by Jean Abou Samra (talk | contribs) (Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series)

Staff.pedalSustainStrings can be used to set the text used for pedal down and up. Note that the only valid strings are those found in the list of pedal glyphs - the values used this snippet constitute an exhaustive list.

\version "2.24"

sustainNotes = { c4\sustainOn d e\sustainOff\sustainOn f\sustainOff }

\relative c' {
  \sustainNotes 
  \set Staff.pedalSustainStrings = #'("P" "P-" "-")
  \sustainNotes 
  \set Staff.pedalSustainStrings = #'("d" "de" "e")
  \sustainNotes 
  \set Staff.pedalSustainStrings = #'("M" "M-" "-")
  \sustainNotes 
  \set Staff.pedalSustainStrings = #'("Ped" "*Ped" "*")
  \sustainNotes 
}