staff.itely (the file containing metronome mark docs) is still unfinished. Please wait a few weeks; if the first public draft does not contain good docs about this, please speak up again.
Cheers, - Graham On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:13:28 +0200 "Libero Mureddu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Neil, > thanks for your answer, > > I'm just wondering if the manual section about metronome marks should > be changed in order to inform that ATM one should use a mixture of > \mark \markup and \tempo, depending on the context: in my memory when > someone (myself and other people I saw) starts a notation software, > after few notes and a a dynamic, next thing to add is a tempo mark, to > complete the typical "Hello, world!" score. > And for a new user it could take very much to understand that one > should use \mark \markup (not talking about how to use it), as > workaround. It is not obvious at all. Not talking about the fact that > a wrong positioned first tempo mark in a piece creates immediately a > "strange" feeling to a musician, even if he/she's not aware of the > "right" rule about the position of those marks. > > Libero > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Libero, > > > > 2008/7/4 Libero Mureddu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> I have two questions: > >> > >> Is there a way to have the \tempo or a custom \mark \markup that > >> behaves correctly according to those three different situations? > > > > I don't think so; unless you use both as required by each individual > > situation, you'll have to override the positioning to fix the > > alignment. > > > > Following Reinhold's improvements to the \tempo command (i.e., > > allowing text markup), there was a discussion about metronome > > alignment (or lack of, when next to a time signature). As I > > understand it from the source, metronome marks are only positioned > > with reference to note columns; without recoding, there doesn't > > seem to be any way of making them acknowledge breakable objects > > like time and key signatures. > > > >> In the example, there are two commented lines that should (in my > >> understanding), move the metronomemark on the left, but I only get > >> to have it down. Is there a bug, or am I doing something wrong? > > > > If you try the same override on a ReheasalMark object, you'll see > > that it too ignores this; in the case of some outside staff objects > > which are aligned #UP or #DOWN, the side axis seems to be > > hard-coded (or is ignored completely: in the case of RehearsalMark, > > there is no default setting for 'side-axis), though I couldn't say > > whether this is a bug or not. > > > > BTW, if you want the rehearsal mark aligned with the left edge of > > the time signature, you'll need to override the TimeSignature > > object's 'break-align-anchor-alignment property: > > > > \override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-align-anchor-alignment = #LEFT > > > > Regards, > > Neil > > > > > > -- > Libero Mureddu > Vanha Viertotie, 21 as 417 > 00350 Helsinki > Finland > http://webusers.siba.fi/~limuredd/ > http://www.myspace.com/liberomureddu > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
