Re: left aligned tempo markings different over multimeasure rests

[Neil Puttock]

2009/4/3 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>:

> Looking further for a solution, we saw that the definition of textLengthOn
>
> textLengthOn = {
>  \override TextScript #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0)
>  \override TextScript #'extra-spacing-height = #'(-inf.0 . +inf.0)
> }
>
> now the problem is to find what type of object is a tempo indication,
> and do the same. Later on we found that a tempo indication such as
>
> \tempo "String" 2=90
>
> is not an object, but rather a sequence consisting of a tempoText
> object followed by a tempoWholesPerMinute object, then a
> tempoUnitDuration and finally a tempoUnitCount. If we could calculate
> what's the extent of this all, we could give the measure a sensible
> width.

The object is Score.MetronomeMark.

The \tempo command sets the context properties you list above, which
are read by the Metronome_mark_engraver.

Regards,
Neil