Re: Horizontal alignment of MetronomeMarks

[Keith OHara]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:46:26 -0800, Daniel Rosen <address@hidden> wrote:

> > At the same time, people were unhappy with the default placement of
> > tempo over barlines
> > so I changed the default put them over where the first note in the measure
> > would go.
>
> This decision makes sense in most cases, but not when the first note in the 
> measure is a MultiMeasureRest.

Now that I am looking for it, I do notice that tempo marks seem to align on the 
first note when there is one, otherwise the barline.

LilyPond is set up to do that (using the messy code that I was recently 
complaining about) by setting the two priority-lists for placement of the tempo 
marks as follows:
  \override Score.MetronomeMark #'break-align-symbols =
    #'(time-signature staff-bar)
  \override Score.MetronomeMark #'non-break-align-symbols =
    #'(note-column-interface multi-measure-rest-interface 
paper-column-interface)
Maybe that should be the default.