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

[Kevin Zembower]

Just to bring this thread to a conclusion:

After two weeks of part-time effort to upgrade from Debian sneezey to
wheezy (or something like that), I still ended up with just lilypond
2.14.2, which didn't work with either of David's examples. Next attempt
will be to dump the Debian install of lilypond and roll my own.

However, I did discover this thread:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68461/searching-a-musical-quarter-note-symbol-to-insert-into-text
which does exactly what I want. I put this section into the preamble of
my .lytex document:

% For quarternote in tempo line:
\providecommand*{\quarternote}{%
  \begingroup
    \fontencoding{U}%
    \fontfamily{wasy}%
    \selectfont
    \symbol{12}%
  \endgroup
}

and put this in the /begin{document} ... /end{document} section:

{\LARGE \quarternote}~= 90

Thanks, again, for everyone's suggestions.

-Kevin

On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 14:58 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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).
>