Re: Orchestral tempo markings

[Graham Percival]

On 27-Mar-05, at 5:37 AM, Luke Palmer wrote:
> I'm transcribing a 15 part orchestral piece, and we've come to the 
> point
> of putting in tempo markings.  After doing it the obvious way for a few
> parts (r1^\allegroMaNonTroppo), I decided it might be better to create 
> a
> "mock staff" everywhere we want the tempo markings, and just write them
> once.  That would easily solve the problem that we only want the
> markings on the top of the conductor's score, not on every part.
> However, when I look at the piano part for which I've done this, it is
> far too spaced out (three systems per page).  Is there a way I can do
> this?  Is there another standard technique for tempo markings?

Have you tried using \mark ?   If you use \mark "Allegro ma non Troppo" 
in
every piece, then it will be printed on all the parts, but it will only 
be
printed once in the score.

Cheers,
- Graham