Re: feature request: Score.metronomeMarkAlignSymbol

[Graham Percival]

On 27-Feb-06, at 4:29 PM, Trevor Bača wrote:

> On 2/24/06, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> > would it be easy to add
> > \set Score.metronomeMarkAlignSymbol = #'clef
> > ?
> >
> > This would be great for metronome marks at the beginning of pieces.
>
> In the meantime, is it possible to construct whatever metronome mark
> your interested using markup and treat the bit of markup as a
> rehearsal mark for positioning with rehearsalMarkAlignSymbol?

That's certainly possible.  Another alternative is to use #'padding and 
#'extra-offset; I've found that

\layout { \context Score
  \override MetronomeMark #'extra-offset = #'(-9 . 0)
  \override MetronomeMark #'Y-offset = 
#ly:self-alignment-interface::aligned-on-y-parent
  \override MetronomeMark #'self-alignment-Y = #-1
}

works well for almost every score.  I was just hoping to simplify it a 
bit -- and make it more future-proof.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham