Re: \tempo -bug and feature request

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 00:51:35 +0200 (EET)
Heikki Johannes Junes <address@hidden> wrote:
> I could vary tempo in a single piece by just putting \tempo 4 = 80 insides
> notes. However, the parsed understood that some extra space was included
> and notes in paper were off by an extra s4.

Really?  It works fine for me, on 1.6.4.

> Caused:
> 
> /home/hjunes/notes/test/testN.ly:3:14: warning: Junking event:

You can ignore those warnings.  The midi file has the tempo changes.

> My proposal is that
>   \tempo 4 = 120
> could be used just to change tempo. And, MM (Maelzel's Metronome,

Yes, this already works.
 
>   \MM 4 = 120
> to change tempo and print also 'a quarter note equals 120' above staff.
 
I'd definately like that... IMO it's the only major feature that Lilypond
doesn't have.

Cheers,
- Graham