Re: Aligning a tempo marking with a note

[David Sumbler]

Thanks to all for the various suggestions on this topic.

In particular, Kieren's suggestion is interesting.  I must confess that,
having been reading and playing music for a mere 63 years, I had to look
up what the word "custos" means!  As you can deduce, I've never really
been "into" early music.

You will understand, then, that I never use a custos, so the line
\once \override Score.MetronomeMark.break-align-symbols = #'(custos)
intrigues me.

I am guessing that "custos" is there because it is something that will
never be found in my scores, and therefore we are effectively
neutralising the usual alignment adjustments at the break.  Is this
correct?  Is it not possible to have an empty list?

David



> > From: Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>
> > To: Noeck <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: Aligning a tempo marking with a note
> > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:23:21 -0500
> > 
> > Hi Joram and David,
> > 
> > > you should rather stick to the right syntax
> > 
> > David *is* using the right syntax: “rit” (etc.) is a tempo marking 
> > (MetronomeMark), not an arbitrary text markup (TextScript).
> > 
> > > I have now discovered that this does not work too well when the
> > > mark comes at the beginning of a bar which has a time- and/or a
> > > key-signature, because the marking then comes above the signature.  This
> > > is fine for a normal tempo marking such as "Allegro", but looks wrong
> > > for "rit." or "accel.", which I would prefer to appear above the first
> > > note of the bar.
> > 
> > Look at break-align-symbols, e.g.
> > 
> > %%%%  SNIPPET BEGINS
> > \version "2.19.30"
> > \language "english"
> > 
> > markMusic = {
> >   \time 4/4
> >   \tempo "Aligned to TimeSignature (default)"
> >   c''4 4 4 4 \break
> > 
> >   \time 3/4
> >   \tempo "rit. (default)"
> >   c''4 4 4 \break
> > 
> >   \time 3/4
> >   \once \override Score.MetronomeMark.break-align-symbols = #'(custos)
> >   \tempo "rit. (tweaked)"
> >   c''4 4 4 \break
> > 
> >   \time 4/4
> >   \tempo "rit. (back to default)"
> >   c''4 4 4 4
> > }
> > 
> > \score { \markMusic }
> > %%%%  SNIPPET ENDS
> > 
> > Hope this helps!
> > Kieren.