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Simultaneous marks
From: |
John Galbraith |
Subject: |
Simultaneous marks |
Date: |
Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:47:50 -0600 (MDT) |
I have lots of places in my score where I want two marks at the same place.
In my case, it is a time (but it could be a normal rehearsal mark) and a
tempo indication. Right now, I do this:
\mark #`(lines (italic "36:09")
(columns ((font-relative-size . -1) ,note) (italic " = 120")))
Where I snagged the metronome marking hack from the Lilypond documentation.
I have a lot of trouble with the font specification for the timing mark.
If I put "roman" or "text" instead of "italic", I get fonts that seem, to
me, random. I also get lots of "warning: can't find ascii character: 32"
and messages like that. Specifically, it doesn't like 32, 120, 61, 58 which
are spaces, "=", and ":". Also "x", but I have no idea why it is
even looking for that character. So, it kind of works, but I get
lots of these warning messages and sometimes the font comes out weird
(like the first mark will be roman, the next will be the time signature
font, and I have even seen it come out using the basic feta font characters
instead of roman).
Also, I would like to be able to box the timing mark without boxing
the metronome mark. I found the box hack in the Lilypond
documentation, but it seems to box the whole composite mark, not just
the part that I want boxed. If I could get to different marks at the
same time, I could change the mark properties in between them. With
this composite mark, though, I need to be able to box only part of it.
Any hope of doing this?
By the way, I like the metronome mark in the \mark command because I put
them in a global part that is used everywhere, so it is hard to associate the
metronome mark with a specific note in a specific part.
Thanks for everything,
John
- Simultaneous marks,
John Galbraith <=