Re: Snippet 204 for 2.11 (was Metronome marks)

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Matthias Loitsch:
> Thank you all! That did the job...
>
> But I'm surprised that this is not a standard feature... Changing rhythm
> like that, is a very common request in my opinion, and should be as easy as
> \tempo 120.

I wholeheartedly agree. 

Just recently, I implemented this in musicxml2ly and I don't particularly like 
the markup, in particular since there is no easy way to make consistent 
changes to all tempo marks. The defaults for markup and tempo marks is quite 
different: \tempo before a note is formatted like a markup ON the note. In 
the conversion (which goes through the music content sequentially), I don't 
have the note available, so I have to resolve to \mark\markup..., which is 
aligned completely different, so mixin \tempo with more complicated tempo 
changes looks very different:
http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/input/regression/musicxml/collated-files.html#03c-MetronomeMarks.ly

In that sample/test file, there is a tempo mark before every first and third 
note of each measure. Notice how in the first measure ("simple" \tempo 
changes) the tempo markings start at the first and third note. In the 
remaining measures, there are more complicated markings using \markup, so 
they appear centered above the bar line and centered between the second and 
third note!

> But I also now: It's an open source project, I shouldn't complain but do
> something about it :)

;-)

Cheers,
Reinhold


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