Re: Spacing around tempo marker

[Graham Percival]

On 5-May-05, at 5:15 AM, Randy Darden wrote:
> My tempo marker is being placed too close to the staff lines - it  
> interferes with some of the stems on the beginning notes.  Is there  
> any way to control the amount of space below the tempo marker?

Yes, by changing the #padding.

Please read
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
Common-tweaks.html#Common-tweaks
(final example)

and
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
Constructing-a-tweak.html#Constructing-a-tweak

Cheers,
- Graham