Re: Adjusting the position of tempo indications

[David Sumbler]

On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 15:29 -0500, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote:
> Greetings David,
> 
> Is the command \markLengthOn possibly what you are looking for?
> 
> Hwaen Ch'uqi

I don't think so, but thanks for the suggestion.  The problem is not the
horizontal space occupied by the marks, but their vertical position in
relation to what is beneath them and also to each other.

David



> 
> On 1/14/15, David Sumbler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 23:17 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote:
> >> 2015-01-12 22:37 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler <address@hidden>:
> >> > The default position of tempo indications is, to my eye, rather too
> >> > close to whatever is beneath them, be it a stave, a note or a slur.
> >> >
> >> > I have tried experimenting with
> >> >
> >> > \override TextScript #'padding = #4
> >> >
> >> > and
> >> >
> >> > \override TextScript.padding = #4
> >> >
> >> > (I was unsure of the syntax) just to see if I can get my tempo markings
> >> > to move, but neither of these works.
> >> >
> >> > How can I get tempo markings to be placed higher?
> >> >
> >> > Also, occasionally I have two such markings quite close together
> >> > horizontally.  How can I get them both to be placed at the same level,
> >> > even if this means that one of them has more than my default level of
> >> > space beneath it?
> >> >
> >> > David
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> please provide a minimal example, including a version-statement.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>   Harm
> >
> > Dominic pointed out that I should have used"MetronomeMark", not
> > "TextScript", so I have corrected this.
> >
> > \version "2.18.0"
> >
> > topLine = {
> >     \relative c'' {
> >     \tempo "Tempo 1" c2 c |
> >     \tempo "Tempo 2" c'4( g c,2) |
> >     \tempo "Tempo 3" f8 c g c, c'2 |
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > bottomLine = {
> >     \relative c'' {
> >     \tempo "Tempo 1" c1 |
> >     \tempo "Tempo 2" c1 |
> >     \tempo "Tempo 3" c1 |
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > \score {
> >     \new StaffGroup <<
> >     \override Score.MetronomeMark.padding = #2
> >     \topLine
> >     \bottomLine
> >     >>
> >     }
> >
> > In the above, "Tempo 1" appears where I want it, but "Tempo 2" and
> > "Tempo 3" are respectively too close to the slur and the beam.
> >
> > Also, sometimes I have 2 successive markings which come close together
> > but which nevertheless have to be anchored to different points in the
> > music.  It would be useful to have these appearing at the same height as
> > each other, even though the clearance beneath one of them might be more
> > than it would need if it appeared on it's own.  Is there any way of
> > achieving this, other than tweaking each individual case in each
> > individual part?
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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