Re: Columns

[Kevin Barry]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Dave Higgins <address@hidden> wrote:

I understand using \markup \left-column { this that }.

Is there a way to do that within a \tempo context?  Some of that Mahler has some long tempo markings.

Is there a way to put a glyph mixed with text into a column command? Unicode notes work, but they're very small and hard to see.

Have you read through this?

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#metronome-marks

A tempo mark will accept a markup _expression_ as an argument, so you can use all the normal markup commands (including glyphs). By default, \tempo puts the \markup in boldface, so you may have to insert a \normal-text. Here is an example:

\version "2.18.2"

{

  \tempo \markup \left-column {

    \line { line 1 }

    \line \normal-text { line 2 including a glyph:

   \smaller \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"8" #1 = 160 }

  }

}

hth

\tempo \markup