Re: How to print just a tempo in a LaTeX document?

[David Kastrup]

Kevin Zembower <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have a lilypond-book document that contains four short pieces of
> music. All of the music uses the same tempo (quarter note = 90). I'd
> like to just print the tempo indication once, and not for each piece. I
> thought I saw a method to print a quarter note, an equals sign and '90',
> in a way similar to how LaTeX prints mathematical symbols between dollar
> signs.
>
> I tried this in my lilypond-book document:
>   \lilypond[quote,fragment]{\tempo 4 = 90}
> but I just got an error complaining about a score with no music,

For me,

  \lilypond[quote]{\new Lyrics \tempo 4 = 90}

works just fine, but requires at least version 2.17.8, exactly because
of that score with no music issue.

You can probably do

\begin{lilypond}
  \new Lyrics { \tempo 4 = 90 "" }
\end{lilypond}

in older versions.  That additionally typesets one quarter note of ""
lyrics.

-- 
David Kastrup