Re: Preventing tempo marks stacking (redux)

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Keith,

> 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.

Is there some good reason why this is not the default, with \markLengthOff as 
the “tweak”?

> 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.

For which I was greatly appreciative.

> 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.

I’ve asked Janek if he might consider this as a sponsored fix.  =)

Cheers,
Kieren.