Q:

Short way to indicate pedaling every bar

I am writing a piano score in Sibelius, and I need to hold and lift the pedal every bar. But writing it explicitly makes the score heavy so I need a quick notation that means the same thing. 
Here I added a text with 3 _ like "etc.", but I don't think that's rigorous. (I am not using the pedal line with the lifting arrow because I find this even heavier than the "Ped. *" notation)
Any ideas ?

A:

I would mark in the pedal for 1-3 occurrences, whichever is long enough to establish the pattern clearly, then mark "simile" or "Pedale simile" where the next pedal mark would fall. 

