Re: metronome mark position

[Libero Mureddu]

Hi Neil,
thanks for your answer,

I'm just wondering if the manual section about metronome marks should
be changed in order to inform that ATM one should use a mixture of
\mark \markup and \tempo, depending on the context: in my memory when
someone (myself and other people I saw) starts a notation software,
after few notes and a a dynamic, next thing to add is a tempo mark, to
complete the typical "Hello, world!" score.
And for a new user it could take very much to understand that one
should use \mark \markup (not talking about how to use it), as
workaround. It is not obvious at all. Not talking about the fact that
a wrong positioned first tempo mark in a piece creates immediately a
"strange" feeling to a musician, even if he/she's not aware of the
"right" rule about  the position of those marks.

Libero

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Libero,
>
> 2008/7/4 Libero Mureddu <address@hidden>:
>
>> I have two questions:
>>
>> Is there a way to have the \tempo or a custom \mark \markup that
>> behaves correctly according to those three different situations?
>
> I don't think so; unless you use both as required by each individual
> situation, you'll have to override the positioning to fix the
> alignment.
>
> Following Reinhold's improvements to the \tempo command (i.e.,
> allowing text markup), there was a discussion about metronome
> alignment (or lack of, when next to a time signature). As I understand
> it from the source, metronome marks are only positioned with reference
> to note columns; without recoding, there doesn't seem to be any way of
> making them acknowledge breakable objects like time and key
> signatures.
>
>> In the example, there are two commented lines that should (in my
>> understanding), move the metronomemark on the left, but I only get to
>> have it down. Is there a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> If you try the same override on a ReheasalMark object, you'll see that
> it too ignores this; in the case of some outside staff objects which
> are aligned #UP or #DOWN, the side axis seems to be hard-coded (or is
> ignored completely: in the case of RehearsalMark, there is no default
> setting for 'side-axis), though I couldn't say whether this is a bug
> or not.
>
> BTW, if you want the rehearsal mark aligned with the left edge of the
> time signature, you'll need to override the TimeSignature object's
> 'break-align-anchor-alignment property:
>
> \override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-align-anchor-alignment = #LEFT
>
> Regards,
> Neil
>



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