On Sat, 2017-02-04 at 15:48 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > On 04/02/17 14:10, David Sumbler wrote: > > > > So my question is: is there any good reason why Lilypond still does > > not allow multiple marks or tempo markings? > Probably because the underlying code makes it very tricky.
I feared that that might be the case. Ideally, then, the code needs to be rewritten, since the limitation is unhelpful and serves little, if any, purpose. However, since I do not have the capability to write such code myself, I merely mention it as an "in an ideal world..." sort of comment. > > If the answer to that question really is "yes", then perhaps we > > could > > have an additional grob or 2 which have the same characteristics as > > the > > existing one(s) but without the restriction on numbers. E.g. could > > we > > have a TextMark grob in addition to RehearsalMark? > Kieran put in a lot of effort iirc to add all this extra stuff. I > remember things from long ago when it was "one mark per barline" and, > because I think RehearsalMark resolved to an ordinary mark you > couldn't > even put a rehearsal mark on the same barline as an ordinary mark. > That > even that took so long to appear implies it was NOT simple. > > I suspect if Kieran could have just stacked marks he would have done. > He > might chime in and tell us. If you want to look at how a tempo mark > is > implemented you might be able to do it for yourself :-) That said, I > wanted to do it and just couldn't get to grips with it :-) I am unclear about what you mean by an "ordinary mark". The implication of what you say seems to be that a RehearsalMark and an "ordinary mark" can be anchored to the same barline - which sounds just like what I am trying to do. > But I think if you want multiple marks the obvious solution is to > stack them in a column. That is an idea I hadn't thought of, and sounds like an excellent suggestion. But after experimenting with it, I have not managed to keep a fermata centred over the barline whilst having a longer text mark left-aligned on or near the barline. So far, then, I can't see a clear solution to what I wanted to do. David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
