Thanks Hans; this works! I'm glad you told me about needing to add an explicit pitch; i wouoldnt have figured that out on my own. I can tweak the positioning as needed.
Also, thanks, because I didnt realize the "tempo" field could go anywhere ! dirck ________________________________ From: Hans Aikema <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2025 2:26 PM To: Dirck Nagy <[email protected]> Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: "note equals note" or durational equivalent 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
