Re: MetronomeMark placement questions

2010-06-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Xavier, Thanks for the comments... It seems to me that the best situation would be to have a property like #'show-marks in Staff, StaffGroup, and GrandStaff & PianoStaff, with a #'marks-direction settable to #UP/#DOWN/#BOTH. The only big issue I can see [conceptually] would be handling Fren

Re: MetronomeMark placement questions

2010-06-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/6/19 Kieren MacMillan : > Hey y'alls, > > I'm trying to solve the age-old [for me] problem of MetronomeMark > placement. :-) I complained a lot about the bad "tempo indications" placement, I'm really glad to see people trying to solve it. Thanks! > There are [at least] four issues that nee

Re: MetronomeMark placement questions

2010-06-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, > The first option is best, in my opinion. Thanks. > The down side to this approach is that you will need to have a separate > music expression to pass to the Tempo context. I suppose that this > expression can be the "master" expression (i.e. the expression that contains > just skips

Re: MetronomeMark placement questions

2010-06-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 6/18/10 10:07 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: > > In the short term, I'm considering creating a Tempo context, which only prints > out tempo indications (akin to the TimeSig context of yore). This context > could then be placed in the \score wherever one needs it, solving (1), (2), > and (4)