Re: metronome mark position

[Libero Mureddu]

Ok, fine.
libero

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> staff.itely (the file containing metronome mark docs) is still
> unfinished.  Please wait a few weeks; if the first public draft
> does not contain good docs about this, please speak up again.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
>
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:13:28 +0200
> "Libero Mureddu" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi Neil,
>> thanks for your answer,
>>
>> I'm just wondering if the manual section about metronome marks should
>> be changed in order to inform that ATM one should use a mixture of
>> \mark \markup and \tempo, depending on the context: in my memory when
>> someone (myself and other people I saw) starts a notation software,
>> after few notes and a a dynamic, next thing to add is a tempo mark, to
>> complete the typical "Hello, world!" score.
>> And for a new user it could take very much to understand that one
>> should use \mark \markup (not talking about how to use it), as
>> workaround. It is not obvious at all. Not talking about the fact that
>> a wrong positioned first tempo mark in a piece creates immediately a
>> "strange" feeling to a musician, even if he/she's not aware of the
>> "right" rule about  the position of those marks.
>>
>> Libero
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> > 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; without recoding, there doesn't
>> > seem to be any way of making them acknowledge breakable objects
>> > like time and key signatures.
>> >
>> >> In the example, there are two commented lines that should (in my
>> >> understanding), move the metronomemark on the left, but I only get
>> >> to have it down. Is there a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
>> >
>> > If you try the same override on a ReheasalMark object, you'll see
>> > that it too ignores this; in the case of some outside staff objects
>> > which are aligned #UP or #DOWN, the side axis seems to be
>> > hard-coded (or is ignored completely: in the case of RehearsalMark,
>> > there is no default setting for 'side-axis), though I couldn't say
>> > whether this is a bug or not.
>> >
>> > BTW, if you want the rehearsal mark aligned with the left edge of
>> > the time signature, you'll need to override the TimeSignature
>> > object's 'break-align-anchor-alignment property:
>> >
>> > \override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-align-anchor-alignment = #LEFT
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Neil
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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