Re: How to suppress metronome marks?

[Graham King]

Gilles,
thanks for your suggestion.  I failed to describe the context of the
question adequately - the tempo change is in the middle of a movement. 
Nevertheless your answer solved another of my problems!

Meanwhile, Mats Bengtsson contributed the following, which solved my
problem.  Thanks Mats, and I hope you don't mind my posting it to the
list for the benefit of other newbies scouring the archive.

-- Graham

Mats wrote:
> Your attempt to do
> \once \override MetronomeMark #'transparent = ##t
> was almost right. The only reason that it didn't work is that
> the property setting is done at the Voice level by default. Since
> the metronome marks are created at the Score level, you have to say
> \once \override Score.MetronomeMark #'transparent = ##t

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:51, Gilles wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> > The two lines
> >         e2~ e8 r \tempo 4=90 r4
> >       \mark \markup{"Andante"}
> 
> You should use several "\score" and indicate the required "\tempo"
> in "\midi" blocks as in the following (also, "\header" is more
> adequate to indicate the movement name):
> 
> %-----
> \score {
>     \relative c'' { e2~ e8 r }
>     \header { piece = "Adagio" }
>     \midi { \tempo 2 = 40 }
>     \layout {}
> }
> \score {
>     \relative c'' { r4 }
>     \header { piece = "Andante" }
>     \midi { \tempo 4 = 90 }
>     \layout {}
> }
> %-----
> 
> Best,
> Gilles
> 
> 
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