RE: Preventing tempo marks stacking

[Richard Sabey]

Thank you, Xavier, for your suggestion. I had wondered if there was a solution which I could apply more generally, but it seems that I will have to deal with each case separately, guessing what limit to apply to the length of a MultiMeasureRest.

This still doesn't deal with cases where there are no multi-bar rests. But in my experience, the only places where that happens, and there is still the risk that tempo marks might stack, come with something like "rit.... a tempo" where the rit lasts no longer than about 2 bars. I can solve that, by engraving those marks as a TextSpanner rather than as tempo indications.

Richard

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:57:52 +0200
> Subject: Re: Preventing tempo marks stacking
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> [snip]
> You are right.
> Snippet #659 is a workaround that works in some case but your example
> shows it fails with notes.
>
> IMHO this feature (expand the whole measure, not only between two notes)
> could (should) be implemented.
>
> A workaround in this case could be to increase the length of the rests
> measures.
>
> \override Staff.MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #24
>
> Result is better with "non-church rests":
>
> \override Staff.MultiMeasureRest #'expand-limit = #1
>
> but that does not solve the feature request.