On 4 February 2013 16:01, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hello all! > > A few weeks ago, in response to Mike Solomon's call for features and bugs, I > posted a request: > >>> 2. Allowing a text markup (especially a MetronomeMark) to have a "minimum >>> measure length". This would avoid collisions, particularly where there are >>> lots of multi-measure rests (e.g., orchestral parts). > > His response was: > >> #2 is doable via a hack. Minimum lengths can only work if you use spanners, >> but you can hijack the tempo print function for a text spanner (and suppress >> the line afterwards) and then create a scheme engraver for text spanner that >> uses whatever as the left bound and the next bar line's non-musical paper >> column as the right bound. Or you could just use the existing engraver and >> use the last note in the measure as a bound, although this will potentially >> create uneven spacing in a measure. >> >> You'll have to manually put this TextSpanner in the topmost context and/or >> use ly:side-position-interface::move-to-extremal-staff (I'd recommend the >> former, as the latter is powerful but falls in the category of LilyPond >> black magic). Make sure to use springs and rods and set a minimum-length - >> there's an example in the docs with a hairpin or glissando or something >> spanner-y that does this. > > Is there anyone out there who can work on this with me? I've got some money > to put towards the implementation.
It would be great to have a TempoTextSpanner, for example in order to handle common notation such as rit. - - - - a tempo or rall - - - - I do not see this request tracked yet. Bug squad, could you add it? Maybe Kieren or Mike could give a proper description. Link to the original thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-02/msg00064.html Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
