Re: Preferred way to set tempo marks?

[Mats Bengtsson]

I usually use normal text scripts:
c^"a tempo"
or
c^\markup{\italic a tempo }
If you want to keep these annotations separate from the music, so it's 
easy to
include them in every instrumental part but only on the top stave of the 
score,
you could attach them to spacing notes. Example:

tempomarks = {s1^\markup{\italic Allegro } | s1_\markup\italic ritardando  }
music = \relative c'''{g8^"arco" e f d e c e f g f g f e d e d | c1 }

\score{
 \new Voice<< \music  \tempomarks>>
}

Note that as long as you keep these annotations in the same Voice context
as the music, they will not collide with note heads or other text 
scripts that
occur at the same note.  If you put the annotations in a separate Voice 
context,
you can get collisions (try to replace "Voice" by "Staff" in the example 
above
to see what I mean), but on the other hand, you can set the padding 
separately
to raise them further from the stave, without risking to affect other 
text scripts
in the actual music. For example, you could do



tempomarks = {
 \override TextScript #'padding = #3
 s1^\markup{\italic Allegro } | s1_\markup\italic ritardando 
}

music = \relative c'''{g8^"arco" e f d e c e f g f g f e d e d | c1 }

\score{
 \new Staff <<
   \new Voice \music
   \new Voice \tempomarks
 >>
}


  /Mats

Michael Kiermaier wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I wonder what is the preferred way to set tempo marks as "ritardando", "a 
> tempo" etc. The lilypond documentation is very good in general, but I did not 
> find much information about this.
>
>
> I tried a scheme macro that I found in 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Style-sheets.html:
>
> tempoMark = #(define-music-function (parser location markp) (string?)
> #{
>   \once \override Score . RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #left
>   \once \override Score . RehearsalMark #'no-spacing-rods = ##t
>   \mark \markup { \bold $markp }
> #})
>
> But it does not work very well. There are collisions with text like ^"arco", 
> and rehersal marks completely disappear if they are at a position where also 
> a \tempoMark is.
>
> Tempo markups are quite common, so I think there should be a standard way to 
> enter them. In my opinion, scheme functions are not very standard.
>
> Greetings and many thanks in advance,
>
> ~michael
>
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