> On 8 Jun 2025, at 20:45, Dirck Nagy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear Lilypond
>
> I am trying to add a "note value equals note value" in the middle of a piece.
>
>
> I would call this a "durational equivalent" or a "beat unit equivalent".
>
> Lilypond must have a different name for it, however, because I can not find
> this by searching.
>
> The closest I can find is Lilypond's "Music Notation inside Markup", which
> is what i want, but i can not get the code to work. Cutting and pasting the
> following from the Lilypond Notation Reference will work:
>
> ^\markup {
> \note {4} #1
> =
> \note-by-number #1 #1 #1.5
> }
>
>
> but i do not understand the syntax. This results in "quarter-note =
> dotted-half-note with a long stem".
>
> What do the various # signs control? I get errors whenever i try to change
> any of them.
>
> FYI, I am trying to write "half note = half note", and scale it to about 75%
> size.
>
> Again, this is to go in the middle of the piece, not in the tempo / metronome
> field at the beginning of the piece.
Dirck,
A tempo/ metronome doesn’t have to appear at the beginning of a piece, it can
be perfectly positioned in the middle of a piece like so are you sure what
you’re after is not a tempo marking?
\version "2.24.0"
{
c' c' c' c'
\tempo \markup {
\rhythm { c4 } = \rhythm { c4 }
}
c' c' c' c'
}
Note: I had to add an explicit pitch as lilypond didn’t interpret a plain 4 as
music yielding
error: wrong type for argument 1. Expecting music, found (ly:make-duration 2)
\rhythm
{ 4 } = \rhythm { 4 }
without it
HTH
