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

[David Kastrup]

Kevin Zembower <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 07:53 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 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}
>> 
>
> David, thanks for your suggestion. I have lilypond 2.12.3, which doesn't
> work with your second suggestion:
>
> --------------------
> Parsing...
> musicSheet.lytex:35:31: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
>   \new Lyrics { \tempo 4 = 90 "
>                                " }

Uh, I have no idea why it would work with mine, actually.  This would
have to be
\new Lyrics \lyricsmode { \tempo 4 = 90 "" }

> Version 2.12.3 is the version available with Debian squeeze 6.0.7. I try
> not to install individual packages, and prefer to do it through the
> package management system, so that I get updates, especially security
> updates, automatically. However, your suggestion caused me to notice
> that Debian is now up to 7.1, so I may update and see what version of
> lilypond that gives me.

2.14 has been released in 2011, more than 2 years ago.  2.16 is already
more than one year old.  2.12 has last been updated in 2009 (if we are
discounting the update of the Japanese translation).

-- 
David Kastrup