Re: metronome mark position

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Neil Puttock:
> Hi Libero,
>
> 2008/7/4 Libero Mureddu <address@hidden>:
> > I have two questions:
> >
> > Is there a way to have the \tempo or a custom \mark \markup that
> > behaves correctly according to those three different situations?
>
> I don't think so; unless you use both as required by each individual
> situation, you'll have to override the positioning to fix the
> alignment.
>
> Following Reinhold's improvements to the \tempo command (i.e.,
> allowing text markup), there was a discussion about metronome
> alignment (or lack of, when next to a time signature). As I understand
> it from the source, metronome marks are only positioned with reference
> to note columns; 

Yes, the code in MetronomeMark explicitly positions the mark at the first 
note-like thing of the measure... That's hardcoded and can't be overridden!

> without recoding, there doesn't seem to be any way of 
> making them acknowledge breakable objects like time and key
> signatures.

Since these metronome marks look very strange at the beginning of a piece, I 
looked at the code and tried copying over staff from RehearsalMark (which 
actually uses the break-align-symbols, defined in scm/define-grobs.scm), but 
all I got was either a crash or no change in output at all :((

I'm probably just too unknowing about the lilypond internals, but I am simply 
unable implement this. Anyone else?


Cheers,
Reinhold
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