David,
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:22 AM, David Sumbler [via Lilypond] <
ml-node+s1069038n18380...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
> Although many scores use a similar italic font for "rit.", "accel." etc.
> as they do for dynamic changes such as "cresc.", I prefer to use an
> upright bold font - the same as for other tempo markings such as
> "Allegro".
>
> The easiest way for me to do this (at least until now) is to use '\tempo
> "rit."' or similar.
>
> However, I have now discovered that this does not work too well when the
> mark comes at the beginning of a bar which has a time- and/or a
> key-signature, because the marking then comes above the signature. This
> is fine for a normal tempo marking such as "Allegro", but looks wrong
> for "rit." or "accel.", which I would prefer to appear above the first
> note of the bar.
>
> I have tried
> \once \override Score.MetronomeMark.X-offset = #4 \tempo "rit.", but
> this is unreliable: it works some of the time, but does not work
> correctly at the beginning of a line; also a clef change seems to upset
> things. And since a clef change will not exist in all the parts, I
> cannot use different values of MetronomeMark.X-offset to get around this
> problem.
>
> Clearly, rather than trying to fake it with horizontal shifting, I need
> actually to align the tempo mark with the note itself, but I haven't
> managed to work out how to do that.
>
> How can it be done?
>
If playback isn't too much of a concern, this should do what you need:
%%%
rit = \markup { \bold "rit." }
\relative c' {
\tempo "Allegro"
c8 d e f c d e f
c8 d e f e8.^\rit d16 c4
}
%%%
HTH,
Abraham
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