## Pedal marks Pedal marks are quite unique in terms of how they structured. They can be applicable to single units in different voices, and in some cases in different voices on different staves. To make life easier, it was decided to make pedal marks as attributes of units, and then by the context of how they declared, we can position them, connect them or separate them when it's needed. ### 1. Simple pedal marks Let's start with simple pedal marks:

As you see, default text value for pedal mark is `Ped.`, but you can set your own. You can also control the stave number which a certain pedal mark will be rendered under:

As you see, each pedal are configured separately. It was designed in this way intentionally, but we will get to the point below in the next section. Vertical position of pedal marks are always adjusted, so that they don't intersect other elements. But you still can correct it:

### 2. Pedal marks with brackets, variable peaks and releases Now, let see how we can create more complex pedal structures. First of all, you can just set release for a pedal:

If you want an open bracket instead of text, just use following statements:

As you see, we specified the stave, under which we want to put pedal marks. You can use closing bracket instead of release mark:

You can use variable peaks along the way:

You can also set texts on top of variable peaks:

Each time you use key word `pedal` we start a new pedal structure. Let's take at the following example:

As you see, all the marks are right under the units where they are declared. You can easily change that with simple `before` and `after` key words, so that they will be rendered before or after units:

You can also put release mark at the end of measure:

Or you can say that release will be after the measure:

You can correct vertical position of the whole pedal structure:

And as it's been shown before, you can set a stave where the whole pedal structure should be positioned:

If there are multiple instruments with pedals, you can create pedal structures for multiple staves. By default, they are positioned under the stave where pedal marks are declared, but you still can specify a stave for them as well like it's been shown in the example above.

We recommend for pedal structures for mulitple staves to keep them where they are declared to avoid any confusion:

Pedal mark structures can be constructed with marks from different voices:

As it's been told before each `pedal` key word start a new pedal structure, without it other pedal marks will not be drawn:

It's very important to let a user to see errors or inaccuracies visually. Also pedal structures can be constructed with marks from different voices and staves:

**P.S.:** You can use numbers from 1 to 10 as words. For example, `1` is `first`, or even `1st`. We could've made possible that all numbers can be expressed as words, but unfortunately it would slow down highlighting in the editor and rendering the image. So, it was decided to enable this feature only for numbers from 1 to 10, since majority of times only these numbers are used and moreover it's easier just to type numbers as numbers. But you still can write `11` as `11th`. When you type numbers to declare coordinates (like `line`, `measure`, `stave`, `voice`, `chord/note/unit`), you can put them before or after those key words, like for example: `first measure` or `measure 1`. Read next: Tuplets