I have a related question: the proposed solution does print the rhythm
markup, but it has no effect on the MIDI output. Is there a way to have
the corresponding effect on the MIDI output?
Thomas
Am 08.06.25 um 21:26 schrieb Hans Aikema:
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
