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Re: sectional titles above tempo markings?
From: |
Josiah Boothby |
Subject: |
Re: sectional titles above tempo markings? |
Date: |
Thu, 21 May 2009 00:43:12 -0700 |
I get an error with \vspace:
error: unknown escaped string: `\vspace'
Are we both using 2.12?
Thanks,
Josiah
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Josiah,
>
>> Using 2.12.2, I'm wondering if I can include some sort of sectional
>> titling information above a tempo marking, ideally also with a markup
>> below the tempo indication, something like:
>>
>> Henry in the Store
>> Superfast (4=198)
>> (muted)
>> [staff with music]
>
> I happen to be doing *precisely* that kind of thing in my current quartet
> commission -- here's one example:
>
> \tempo 4 = 69 \tempo \markup \dir-column
> {
> \concat { "Tenderly, with some rubato (" \fontsize #-2 \general-align #Y
> #DOWN \note #"4" #1 " = ca. 66-72)" }
> "VARIATION I"
> \vspace #0
> \combine \fontsize #2 "PART ONE" \lower #0.7 \override #'(thickness . 1.5)
> \draw-line #'(16 . 0)
> }
>
> Notes:
> 1. \vspace is the standard (Nicholas's?) function for inserting vertical
> space;
> 2. the last element has a manually-built underline (because we don't
> currently have control over all the properties of Lilypond's \underline); and,
> 3. there are *two* \tempo commands (one to set the actual tempo, one to
> generate the markup).
>
> Hope this helps!
> Kieren.
>