Re: Preventing tempo marks stacking (redux)

[Keith OHara]

On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:39:26 -0800, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> > Thanks for the reply, but this doesn't do what I need---I still need the 
> > MetronomeMarks to be aligned with the BarLines.
>
> Oh… Maybe Keith (cc’ed here) can help — he’s the one I got that set of 
> overrides from.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.


I can never remember the overrides, so I defined the set to space marks as
  \markLengthOn
and got it into LilyPond versions 2.17.19 and later.

At the same time, people were unhappy with the default placement of tempo over 
barlines
 <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=712#c9>
so I changed the default put them over where the first note in the measure 
would go.

The incantations for tempo marks are
  \override Score.MetronomeMark #'non-break-align-symbols =
  #'(multi-measure-rest-interface)  %% to start the tempo mark over the barline
% #'(paper-column-interface)  %% to start the tempo mark over first note-column

For reasons I could never figure out
  <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=684>
MetronomeMark uses a different interface than the rehearsal marks and bar 
numbers.