Re: Metronome marks

[Mats Bengtsson]

See
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-12/msg00013.html
for an example on how to design your own layout for a metronome mark
using the text markup features. The +- sign can be typeset using
embedded LaTeX in the text string: " = $\\pm$ 48".

   /Mats

Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've looked at the (to me) new \tempo, and I don't know how to make it 
> do what I need. I'd like to have "Andante (H = +- 48)" printed above the 
> meter, where:
>
> * H is a halfnote
>
> * +- is a + printed above a -
>
> * I'd prefer to attach it to a voice with only spacers, but that seems 
> to print it more than a bar too much to the right
>
> * I'd like to be able control the vertical and horizontal placement of 
> the mark
>
> If someone could help me out or point me to a place in the docu I'd be 
> most happy. Thanks in advance.

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