On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Shamus wrote:
> Gripe #4: Tempo marking. It would be nice if lily typeset the tempo that I
> have set near the beginning in a somewhat standard way (such as: .| = 110,
> where ".|" is a small quarter note).
While this is not possible with lilypond itself, you can work around
this by using a custom LaTeX "envelope" instead of using ly2dvi. If
you do that, you also have full control over the whole page layout and
over how the headings are typeset.
For example, I have a file 'envelope.latex':
--- SNIP ---
% -*-LaTeX-*-
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{german}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage{graphics}
%\usepackage[all,outline]{draftcopy}
\geometry{width=188mm, left=11mm, height=280mm, top=6.5mm}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\rhead{}
\chead{\bf Aus meines Herzens Grunde}
\lhead{}
\rfoot{Seite \thepage\ von \pageref{LastPage}}
\cfoot{}
\lfoot{\small Non-commercial copying welcome. {\tt [EMAIL PROTECTED]}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{}
\rfoot{Seite \thepage\ von \pageref{LastPage}}
\cfoot{}
\lfoot{\small Non-commercial copying welcome. {\tt [EMAIL PROTECTED]}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
{\Huge\bf Aus meines Herzens Grunde}
\thispagestyle{plain}
{\large\sl Choralvorspiel}
\end{center}
\vspace{6mm}
\begin{flushleft}
{\bf Allegro moderato (\includegraphics{halfnote.eps} $\approx$ 120)}
\end{flushleft}
\vspace{-14mm}
\begin{flushright}
{\sc Michael Krause 06/1999, \#1}
\end{flushright}
\input{choral.tex}
\end{document}
--- SNAP ---
This file includes "choral.tex" which is the file generated by
Lilypond (and *only* lilypond, not ly2dvi!). The headings are written
in real TeX code in the envelope file. Here, you could also switch to
your favourite font, of course -- if you know a bit about TeX/LaTeX
(I'm not that good at it either).
Have a look at the "Allegro moderato" line -- it contains a "halfs =
120" entry; The half note including the stem is an Embedded PostScript
(eps) file included with \includegraphics{}. I've generated that file
using Lilypond, of course. I start with 'halfnote.ly':
--- SNIP ---
\score {
\notes \relative e' {
\stemup
e2
}
\header {
tagline = "";
}
\paper {
linewidth = -1.\cm;
\translator {
\StaffContext
\remove Clef_engraver;
\remove Staff_symbol_engraver;
}
}
}
--- SNAP ---
(note how I remove the Clef and Staff_symbol engravers, so that really
only the note and its stem get typeset)
And the following two commands generate 'halfnote.eps' from that:
ly2dvi -N halfnote.ly
dvips -X 600 -Y 600 -Z -E -o halfnote.eps halfnote.dvi
I admit this has been a bit of work, but once one has an envelope and
a Makefile for the whole process, it's very comfortable to work with!
hope this helps,
--
michael krause [aka raw style / lego] - www.tu-harburg.de/~semk2104/
